Daily Dispatches

2:55p ET Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Silver market analyst Ted Butler's new commentary offers "Straight Talk on Manipulation" and warns that the manipulators of the silver market are undermining their own country by creating a desperate shortage of a strategic metal. You can find Butler's commentary at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

By Steve Eder
Reuters
Monday, June 22, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55L29M20090622

NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is on pace to make record bonus payouts after a robust first half, the Guardian newspaper reported on Sunday.

By Tamora Vidaillet
Reuters
via Forbes.com
Monday, June 22, 2009

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/06/22/afx6569595.html

PARIS -- An increase in exports is needed for a sustained recovery in the United States and this may require an adjustment in the value of the U.S. dollar, IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard said on Monday.

By Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Saturday, June 20, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/5586543/Is-this-the-death-o...

After two smugglers were stopped last week with what at first appeared to be $134 billion in US state bonds, the tension and paranoia surrounding the fate of the dollar hit a new high.