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Gene Arensberg: Commercials in gold have never been shorter

Section: Daily Dispatches

7p ET Sunday, October 14, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Big banks ponder creating fund to rescue mortgage-backed securities

Section: Daily Dispatches

Big Banks Push
$100 Billion Plan
To Avert Crunch

Fund Seeks to Prevent
Mortgage-Debt Selloff;
Advice From Treasury

By Carrick Mollenkamp, Ian McDonald,
and Deborah Solomon

The Wall Street Journal
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Commodities will move out of pricing in dollars, fund manager says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pratima Desai
Reuters
Friday, October 12, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL1227332920071012

LONDON -- Resource-rich countries will move away from the dollar as a base for the commodities they produce to protect their earnings as the dollar's slide accelerates, UK-based Emergent Asset Management told Reuters.

Mining in South Africa: Deep, dark, and dangerous

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michelle Faul
Associated Press
via Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg
Thursday, October 11, 2007

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__...

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's gold companies, already mining at the world's deepest depths, are looking to plumb even deeper veins in a new gold rush spurred by record prices.

Nickel may become Canada's new penny

Section: Daily Dispatches

Pity the Poor Penny;
Most Say It's Not Worth
the Copper It's Minted With

By the Canadian Press
Thursday, October 11, 2007

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hbg2kHxN1BrcQ8FPMr6FoQu4eYuw

OTTAWA -- Canadians have given the Royal Canadian Mint more than their two cents worth about what they can do with that ubiquitous brown coin filling jars around the house.

John Crudele: Did Paulson tip Wall Street after meeting Bernanke?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Crudele
New York Post
Thursday, October 11, 2007

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10112007/business/market_sos_to_the_sec.htm

Did Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke give away any secrets to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson when the two had an hour-long lunch on Aug. 16?

And did Paulson share what he and Bernanke discussed with anyone in the hours immediately after that lunch?

Central bank gold sales fell 25 tonnes short; Bundesbank opts out

Section: Daily Dispatches

Central Banks Sold 475.75 Tonnes
in Gold Agreement's Third Year

From Reuters
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1010745820071010

Academic roots for more rigging of currency markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

How to Prevent a Rout of the Declining Dollar

By Jeffrey Garten
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8c0004a-7760-11dc-9de8-0000779fd2ac.html

Ron Paul heads for the belly of the beast on Friday ...

Section: Daily Dispatches

... and it probably won't take much to persuade him to talk about the gold-price suppression scheme -- just $1,000:

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/events/new-york-city-evening

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