Daily Dispatches

Bank of England in dramatic turn on 3-month money

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2007-09-19 08:59 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Philip Aldrick
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KS0IE3USQZ1D1QFIQ...

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Hugo Salinas Price: A perpetual 'war on gold'?

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2007-09-19 00:54 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:45a ET Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price, president of the Mexican Civic Association for Silver and longtime friend and supporter of GATA, speculates in a new essay, "A Perpetual 'War on Gold'?," about how governments could keep their gold-price suppression scheme going even after their gold reserves are exhausted.

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Dan Norcini: Capital flows promise more trouble for dollar

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-09-18 23:02 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dan Norcini
www.JSMineset.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

With all the excitement surrounding the interest rate reduction by the Fed, it is easy to overlook something else that occurred today that also has serious implications for the US dollar. The Treasury International Capital Flows data for July 2007 was released early this morning. The data was not good.

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William Greider: The lies of Alan Greenspan

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-09-18 22:29 Section: Daily Dispatches

By William Greider
The Nation, New York
via San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/18/EDCLS7TH4...

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Canadian dollar less than cent and a half from parity

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-09-18 22:04 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Frank Pingue
Reuters
via Yahoo News
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/wl_canada_nm/canada_markets_canada_d...

TORONTO -- The Canadian currency shot to within a "heartbeat" of parity with the U.S. dollar on Tuesday due to an aggressive rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve and lofty commodity prices.

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Pretending that bad credit is good credit

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-09-18 21:52 Section: Daily Dispatches

Chief Strategist Predicts Record Gold Run

By Leo Lewis
The Times, London
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_...

HONG KONG -- It would be the biggest run on gold since the attempted French invasion of Britain of 1797 that sent prices through the roof.

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Antal Fekete: Part 3 of Peak Gold! A primer on true hedging

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2007-09-18 21:42 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:30p ET Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hard-money economist Antal Fekete's third installment in his series of "Peak Gold" essays brilliantly and wittily defends his proposition that any gold mining company's hedging its gold production beyond one year is fraudulent.