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Peter Brimelow: Gold's path to $1,000 now clear?

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By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, February 11, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/golds-path-1000-ounce-now/story.as...

NEW YORK -- Gold dodged a bullet this past week. Gold bugs think this might have been the bears' last shot, and the path to $1,000 is now clear.

No third-party presidential candidacy for Paul

Section: Daily Dispatches

By the Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Saturday, February 9, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ron_paul_campaign

HOUSTON -- Presidential hopeful Ron Paul said he will not run as a third-party candidate in a new message to supporters that seems to recognize his slim chances at getting the Republican nomination.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Japan is the next sub-prime flashpoint

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, February 10, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/10/ccjapa...

Just as battered investors had begun to glimpse signs of recovery in America, the next shoe has dropped with an almighty thud in Japan. Echoes are rumbling across the Far East.

Jim Sinclair: Any IMF sales will be great for gold

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By Jim Sinclair
www.JSMineset.com
Saturday, February 9, 2008

China has a trillion dollars in reserves and wishes to offload dollars, and this is a perfect fit. The year of the rat is a year of opportunity for some.

Any sales of gold have nothing to do with the market for gold, as not one ounce will ever see the free market.

The buyers will be gold-poor central banks.

GATA's ad reaches national audience in South Africa

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:01p MT Saturday, February 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to our friends who call themselves South Africans for a Free Gold Market, GATA's full-page color ad published in The Wall Street Journal on January 31 was published on Friday, also on a full page in color, in South Africa's national financial daily newspaper, Business Day.

Mobilization of IMF gold just a sign of central bank desperation

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:37a MT Saturday, February 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Before panicking about the Reuters story appended here, reporting that the G7 conference in Tokyo likes the idea that the International Monetary Fund should raise money for itself by selling some of its gold reserves, consider a few things.

Debt fears heighten in U.S. and Europe

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By Michael Mackenzie and Henny Sender
Financial Times, London
Friday, February 8, 2008

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2141fb54-d67a-11dc-b9f4-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

Fears about corporate and commercial property debt reached new heights in the US and Europe on Friday as investors liquidated holdings in a sign of spreading credit turmoil.

OPEC chief muses about gradually switching oil pricing to euros

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OPEC Considers Switch to Euro Pricing

By Perry Williams
Middle East Economic Digest, London
Friday, February 8, 2008

http://www.meed.com/news/2008/02/opec_considers_switch_to_euro_pricing.html

John Embry's address to the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:15p MT Thursday, February 7, 208

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The address made by Sprott Asset Management's chief investment strategist, John Embry, to the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference on Monday, January 21, had some wonderful things to say about GATA and some important things to say about the gold market. It has been posted at the Sprott site here:

Russian financial Internet site notes GATA's ad in The Wall Street Journal

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:15p ET Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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