The gold cartel’s a scandal in waiting, says GATA’s Bill Murphy – by Greg Klein (Resource Clips – Janaury 16, 2018)

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Don Quixote comes in two guises. Bill Murphy of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee associates his group with neither.

Cervantes wrote of a delusional character convinced he was protecting the local peasantry from horrific monsters as the wannabe knight charged on horseback at a windmill. The words “Quixotic” and “tilting at windmills,” however, later came to describe not delusions but the pursuit of a real and noble campaign that’s also a lost cause.

Understandably, Murphy would reject any comparison with the original Quixote. He also rejects the second interpretation because, while firmly believing in GATA’s legitimacy, he sees it as anything but an exercise in futility. Especially now. That’s the message he’ll bring to the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference with his January 22 presentation, The Gold Cartel, Sex Scandals and GATA.

The recent wave of scandals has taken down some rich and previously powerful people, showing limitations to their supposed invincibility. But to Murphy, there’s an additional lesson to be learned. Disturbing conditions of injustice or corruption can fester for decades, known only to a few. They become scandals only with widespread public awareness—and the ensuing outrage.

Murphy’s concern with market machinations began as he worked for a brokerage in the 1980s. Recognizing the burgeoning Internet’s potential, he began LeMetropoleCafe.com to express his views and those of others. An epiphany of sorts came in 1998 with the collapse of Long Term Capital Management.

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