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Barry Ritholtz: Here comes the commodity index rebalancing

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11:11a ET Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Barry L. Ritholtz, director of equity research for Fusion IQ in New York, expresses skepticism about the "rebalancing" of the Dow Jones commodity index to diminish the gold component and increase the oil component. Ritholtz writes:

Central banks don't mind any amount of loss in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:46p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

It's fun to tweak the British government for the portfolio loss it incurred by selling its gold reserves at the bottom of the market some years ago, as the news story and commentary appended here do. It's more fun because the British government cannot give the candid answer that would provide the supposed justification.

Martin Armstrong's treatise touches on market manipulation

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5:25p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ted Butler: A specific issue

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1p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

David Hale: Only one alternative to the dollar -- gold

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By David Hale
Financial Times, London
Monday, January 5, 2009

Demand is untarnished for gold, mining chief says

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By William MacNamara
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, February 6, 2008

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/69cab212-db92-11dd-be53-000077b07658.html?ncli...

In his wood-panelled office overlooking St James's Park in central London, Peter Hambro opens a cabinet of curiosities. From it he pulls a gold coin he says was minted in the area of Belgium "shortly after the year zero [AD]."

An exchange on gold's future, and GATA's

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Dear GATA:

Jay Taylor is interviewed about gold on BNN

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10:15p ET Monday, January 5, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's friend Jay Taylor of J. Taylor's Gold & Technology Stocks Letter went on Business News Network in Canada on Monday and was interviewed by Michael Kane about gold and gold stocks. You can watch the interview at the BNN site here:

http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip126509

Former Bank of England official expects dollar collapse

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By Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Monday, January 5, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4125947/Willem-Buiter-warns-of-massiv...

Americans must prepare themselves for a massive collapse in the dollar as investors around the world dump their US assets, a former Bank of England policymaker has warned.

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