This includes the Chinese and everyone else who never stopped knowing that physical gold and silver, in hand, is the best means of long term wealth preservation.

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Dr. Tony Wicks, director of anti-money laundering (AML) solutions at NICE Actimize, said the Arab Spring made this a very busy year for everyone in AML, which broadly includes transaction monitoring, customer due diligence (Know Your Customer or Customer Due Diligence) and on the sanctions front, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) as listed by the UN, the UK Treasury or the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

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And I think what I said applies to everyone in this debate, everybody involved in these negotiations, and in some ways that includes every member of Congress -- to get a resolution for the American people, to get the work done that they want done, everybody needs to move off their starting position.

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