Will The Real Fraud Please Stand Up?

Jeanne D'Arc successfully typecast me as being the philospher here, here's an update on my investigation of the metals markets.

Last week, the Wynter Benton copywriters appear to have taken on a new project by taking on the guise of 'ANOTHER', infiltrating the FOFOA comments thread. Unfortunately for them, FOFOA is pretty sharp, recognising their true colors from the very start, and quickly sent him packing . Regardless of the motivations or intent of the FakeAnother, the imposter followed a pattern common to most cons:

1. Locate a group of people and identify their area of interest.
2. Establish some form of credibility (real or imagined), using any available technique.
3. Refuse verification and discussion of key topics, using various run-arounds or ambiguity.
4. Inject an ideas stream using credibility, while it lasts.

The payload for delivery seemed to be the old 'china is buying lots of metal' meme.

"The identity of your Big Trader matters not, do not concern yourself with speculation of events past. It was China! and it still is China. PAGE, the backdoor into the Treasury and now the LME. Yes, China holds a very strong hand and it grows stronger." [link]

The key to the imposter identification is the brush-offs regarding any authentication challenge. I won't go into it because it's yesterday's news already but for a while I wallowed in the beautiful ironic possibility that perhaps ANOTHER had broken his long silence and was chased away by the faithful. There is also still the chance that ANOTHER was an early Wynter Benton, but I won't advance that concept for obvious reasons (only to say that I'm intrigued by the possibility at a philosophical level). The trouble for anyone wanting to debunk the freegold thesis is that they must debunk a large body of resesarch which (to date) has generally held up against much scrutiny.

I don't think Martin Armstrong succeeded in debunking freegold theory. Many folk (including myself) have been writing Martin to get him to investigate the Freegold thesis, simply to see if the concept has merit in the context of his economical understanding. His recent essay titled 'The Truth About Gold & Why You Should Buy It!' disappointed me in general (pdf version). Originally I tuned out long before page 19, but Kid Dynamite made me take another look.