Attention, mainstream financial journalists! Here's something else
important for you to ignore this week, thanks to the diligent eye of gold
researcher and GATA consultant Ronan Manly.
It's a breakfast meeting to be held Friday in Washington for "a
select group of central banks and other official-sector institutions,"
sponsored by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and the
World Gold Council, to discuss "gold, the renminbi, and the
multicurrency system," convened in conjunction with the spring meeting
of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, a United Nations
agency:
http://www.omfif.org/meetings/briefings/
"Discussions," the discreet announcement from OMFIF says,
"are under Chatham House Rules," whereby information may be used
but never attributed:
http://www.chathamhouse.org/about/chatham-house-rule
While many nations with central banks purport to be representative
democracies and while the World Gold Council purports to be the
representative of the gold industry, some of whose participants actually have
to get their hands dirty every day --
http://www.gold.org/about-us
-- attendance at Friday's meeting will be by invitation only. So for the
record GATA has requested one.
But if you don't get an invitation, you can fairly assume that the
valuation of all capital, labor, goods, and services in the world is none of
your business. This is after all the central bankers' world. The rest of us
are lucky that they let us even pass through it from time to time, though the
impertinent among us might wonder why central bankers should need to talk in
secret about something supposedly as irrelevant and retrograde as gold.
Good thing for them that mainstream financial journalists have neither
curiosity nor backbone.
