> From: "Danny Van den Berghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:22:35 +0300
> To: "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: "Free" storage (was Re: gold ETF and GDC)

> Enron was to do with 'cooking the books', so that the losses /loans and
> risks they were taking could not be seen by the investors.
> It involved cooperation of the auditing firm for this scam to be possible.

> But how would a system like DBourse avoid this kind of problem, when there
> is not even an auditing firm to check the books?
> When they are probably not even going to publish their exact turnover and
> profit numbers every quarter...


TGC could always hire an auditing firm. DBourse could do likewise.

> 
> Any kind of dishonest management could pull the Enron trick easily on a
> DBourse style exchange.


You don't need a governing authority. You can build this into the risk
premium.




- John 
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