Illegal to buy/sell gold bullion starting July 15??

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chrikenn
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Illegal to buy/sell gold bullion starting July 15??

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See this: http://sgtreport.com/2011/06/breaking-n ... g-july-15/

And if you google "illegal trade gold bullion july 15," quite a few results come up.

Anybody know anything about this?

How will this affect IAU and GLD?
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Re: Illegal to buy/sell gold bullion starting July 15??

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No effect.

This is not a ban on buying and selling bullion.  If it were, the U.S. Mint would probably have something up on its website announcing that it would soon stop selling eagle coins.
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Looks to me like the Frank-Dodd act only affects leveraged trading of commodities contracts, not buying or selling of gold/silver bullion.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/20 ... r-trading/

http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Dod ... 1-3-1.html
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Would that new rule be partly a reaction to the troubles caused by commodity trading? See Matt Taibbi's article Wikileaks: Speculators Helped Cause Oil Bubble
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