Here are some of his suggestions to the BOJ:
http://blackswaninsights.blogspot.com/2010/08/bernanke-explains-how-to-escape.html

“Unfortunately, high-frequency trader interaction with computerized algorithms of large-cap financial institutions is providing opportunities for high-speed, virtually undetectable market manipulation”,

http://tinyurl.com/2bn8jj4

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s
ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar
daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well
before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy
hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other
two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a
combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not
know who these brothers are.

Last week the Kochs were shoved unwillingly into the spotlight by the
most comprehensive journalistic portrait of them yet, written by Jane
Mayer of The New Yorker. Her article caused a stir among those in
Manhattan’s liberal elite who didn’t know that David Koch, widely
celebrated for his cultural philanthropy, is not merely another rich
conservative Republican but the founder of the Americans for
Prosperity Foundation, which, as Mayer writes with some
understatement, “has worked closely with the Tea Party since the
movement’s inception.” To New Yorkers who associate the David H. Koch
Theater at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, it’s
startling to learn that the Texas branch of that foundation’s
political arm, known simply as Americans for Prosperity, gave its
Blogger of the Year Award to an activist who had called President
Obama “cokehead in chief.”

The other major sponsor of the Tea Party movement is Dick Armey’s
FreedomWorks, which, like Americans for Prosperity, is promoting
events in Washington this weekend. Under its original name, Citizens
for a Sound Economy, FreedomWorks received $12 million of its own from
Koch family foundations. Using tax records, Mayer found that
Koch-controlled foundations gave out $196 million from 1998 to 2008,
much of it to conservative causes and institutions. That figure
doesn’t include $50 million in Koch Industries lobbying and $4.8
million in campaign contributions by its political action committee,
putting it first among energy company peers like Exxon Mobil and
Chevron. Since tax law permits anonymous personal donations to
nonprofit political groups, these figures may understate the case. The
Kochs surely match the in-kind donations the Tea Party receives in
free promotion 24/7 from Murdoch’s Fox News, where both Beck and Palin
are on the payroll.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?src=me&ref=general

Faced with increasing difficulty in selling the mortgage-backed securities that had been among their most lucrative products, the banks hit on a solution that preserved their quarterly earnings and huge bonuses: They created fake demand.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/no-one-left-to-sell-cdos-to-sell-to-yourself/

http://tinyurl.com/2bp7uo3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyW3M-UTIWM

Financial newsletter writer Chris Weber’s new essay, published today at Lew Rockwell’s Internet site, describes the efforts of the late industrialist Edward Durrell to ascertain the true status of the U.S. gold reserve in the 1970s. Superficially, Durrell’s efforts didn’t yield much — but they did expose the U.S. government’s refusal to fully account for the metal and did produce a written acknowledgement from the Government Accounting Office that in 1975 less than a tenth of the gold claimed to be stored at the Fort Knox depository constituted “good delivery” gold, gold of the purity usually required in international transactions.

Weber, who in 1988 published a book, “‘Good As Gold?’: How We Lost Our Gold Reserves and Destroyed The Dollar,” which he hopes to make available on the Internet soon, believes that any honest audit of the U.S. gold reserve “would shock the nation.” His essay is headlined “The Great American Disaster: How Much Gold Remains In Fort Knox?” and you can find it at the Rockwell site here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/weber-c1.1.1.html

As part of a settlement agreement, the commission fined Moore Capital Management L.P. of New York $25 million for attempting to manipulate the platinum and palladium futures markets in 2007 and 2008. The CFTC found that a former portfolio manager for Moore Capital engaged “in a practice known as ‘banging the close.’ Specifically, the former portfolio manager’s orders were entered in a manner designed to exert upward pressure on the settlement prices of the platinum and palladium futures contracts.”

Many market observers and particularly gold and silver market observers may laugh at this CFTC enforcement action, insofar as “banging the close” often can be found in various markets in the United States and particularly in the gold and silver futures markets. It’s also called “tape painting.”

http://www.gata.org/node/8923