The government intervention in gold, the mega-bubble in paper, and what this means for your future Speck, Dimitri creator author. text bibliography enk 2013 monographic eng ger

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xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Why gold? -- The crises of the 1990s -- The strange behaviour of gold during crises -- The strange intraday behaviour of gold -- The first statistical studies -- Statistical proof and dating of gold interventions -- Intraday movements of the gold price 1986-2012 -- Gold is different -- Means of gold market intervention I : sales -- Means of gold intervention II : gold lending -- The gold carry trade -- Coordination of private banks and central banks -- Giving the game away : central bankers are human beings too -- The books are silent -- The miraculous gold multiplication -- How much gold is on loan worldwide? -- Means of gold intervention III : intervention through the futures market -- The gold pool and other gold market interventions before 1993 -- 5 August 1993, 8.27 a.m. EST : the beginning of systematic gold market interventions -- The decisive Fed meeting -- Greenspan ponders gold market interventions -- Phases of gold price suppression -- Shock and awe -- The financial market crisis of 2008 and the Euro crisis of 2011 -- Strong dollar and weak mining stocks -- Interventions in the silver market -- Swapped Bundesbank gold and other mysteries -- Who intervenes? -- The mystery of 18 May 2001, 12.31 -- The effects of gold price suppression -- The wonderful world of bubbles -- Have many mini-bubbles created a mega-bubble? -- Money or credit? -- Possible scenarios for the future -- Back to gold. Dimitri Speck ; translated by Heinz Blasnik. Translation of: Geheime Goldpolitik. Includes bibliographical references and index. Gold Economic aspects Gold Prices Government policy Banks and banking, Central Financial crises Oro Aspectos económicos Oro Precios Política del Gobierno Crisis financieras 20150900 HG293 S741g 2013 332.63 9781137286420 (cloth) 1137286423 (cloth) 2013427622 CDX 140117 20230410115732.0 120877 eng