The Shareholders' Gold Council, started last year by fund manager John Paulson "to conduct research reports and studies of interest to investors in the gold industry" (https://www.goldcouncil.net/), has rejected GATA's requests for membership and to make a presentation about manipulation of the gold market by central banks and their bullion bank agents.
Of course that's not quite how the council's internet site describes it, but the council is entitled to what seems to be its opinion that the manipulation of the price of the metal produced by gold-mining companies is of no interest to the companies themselves.
Shareholders in gold-mining companies might be equally entitled to some puzzlement about this.
