{"id":2219,"date":"2013-05-16T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:58:30","slug":"world-gold-council-serves-banker-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"World Gold Council serves banker-paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jeff Nielson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>ETF Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2220\" title=\"gold-etf\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gold-etf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"117\" \/>Once upon a time, an entity called the \u201cWorld Gold Council\u201d was created. It was supposed to be an industry trade-group, which (like all industry trade-groups) promotes the health and growth of their industry. But that\u2019s not how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p>To understand the World Gold Council, one need do little more than examine its history. It was created in 1987. Was this the beginning of some new, Golden Age for the gold mining industry? Hardly. In fact, it marked the early stages of the most successful era of gold price-suppression in history, and the complete destruction of the global gold-mining industry \u2013 with more than 90% of the world\u2019s gold mines being bankrupted.<\/p>\n<p>If the World Gold Council is really an \u201cindustry trade-group\u201d, then it was\/is the most incompetent\/inefficient such entity ever created. But, of course, the World Gold Council doesn\u2019t serve \u201cgold\u201d or even gold-mining. It serves paper &#8212; banker-paper, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etfdailynews.com\/2013\/05\/16\/the-world-paper-council\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, an entity called the \u201cWorld Gold Council\u201d was created. 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