Julian Phillips: Of course gold is manipulated — the London Gold Pool, 1961-68

In his latest commentary about gold market manipulation, Julian Phillips of the Gold Forecaster letter reviews the establishment of the London Gold Pool, the gold market-rigging mechanism of the Western central banks in the 1960s. The U.S. dollar survived the gold pool's collapse, Phillips writes, because the dollar was still required to purchase oil from the Middle East.

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