-- Published: Friday, 12 July 2019 | Print | Disqus
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Silver market rigging critic Ted Butler's new commentary details the capture of the commodity markets by derivatives employed by a small number of financial houses, thereby destroying market pricing. His commentary is headlined "Deliberately Looking Away," referring to the failure of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Justice Department to do anything about it.
Unfortunately Butler can't seem to acknowledge the probability that these enforcement agencies fail to act against market rigging because the actual perpetrator is the U.S. government itself, operating through intermediary brokers, and because such rigging is legal.
That probability is greater because of the refusal of the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to answer the simple question posed to them more than a year ago by U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia: Which markets are you secretly trading in, and why?:
http://gata.org/node/18210
The probability is greater still because of the refusal of the CFTC itself to answer GATA's question, reiterated by Mooney, as to whether the commission has jurisdiction over manipulative trading by the U.S. government or its agents or whether such trading is legal, authorized by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 as amended since then:
http://gata.org/node/18512
http://gata.org/node/18832
The probability becomes a near-certainty in light of the discount program offered by CME Group to governments and central banks for their secret trading in all major futures contracts traded on U.S. exchanges:
http://gata.org/node/18925
Indeed, a formal admission of the U.S. government's power to rig markets secretly was given by an assistant U.S. attorney during GATA consultant Reg Howe's lawsuit against the Fed, Treasury, Bank for International Settlements, and bullion banks in U.S. District Court in Boston in 2001. Moving to dismiss the lawsuit, the assistant U.S. attorney told the court that, while it wasn't admitting to rigging markets as the lawsuit complained, the government did claim the power to rig them secretly, power conferred by the Gold Reserve Act:
http://gata.org/node/4211
So the much bigger concern here is not why the regulatory agencies are looking away from futures market rigging but why the mainstream financial news organizations, market analysts, and commodity producers themselves are looking away. There is no mystery about what is happening here. All anyone has to do is put the critical, specific questions to the responsible government agencies and then watch them run.
Butler's commentary is posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here --
http://silverseek.com/commentary/deliberately-looking-away-17686
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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-- Published: Friday, 12 July 2019 | E-Mail | Print | Source: GoldSeek.com
