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Futures market watchdog evades silver manipulation specifics

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:26p ET Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Ex-Treasury official confirms gold suppression scheme

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p ET Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In an essay published today at Counterpunch.org, former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts confirms that the U.S. government has been leasing gold to suppress its price and support the dollar. The admission is made in the last paragraph of the essay, which is appended.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Simon Constable shows what the country is up against

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:55p MT Monday, February 23, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Ted Butler's address to the Phoenix conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:38a MT Monday, February 23, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

The address given over the weekend to the Phoenix Resource Investment Conference by silver market analyst and GATA consultant Ted Butler has been posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek. It is titled "Silver: Past, Present, Future," and you can find it at SilverSeek here:

Hugo Salinas Price: The long and the short of it

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Hugo Salinas Price, President
Mexican Civic Association for Silver
Saturday, February 20, 2009

http://www.plata.com.mx/mplata/articulos/articlesFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=93

Rick Ackerman acknowledges suppression of gold price

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:03p MT Sunday, February 22, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst and trader Rick Ackerman seems to have joined those who acknowledge that central banks and their investment house agents are trying to suppress the gold price. His remarks to that effect come in a commentary just posted at GoldSeek and headlined "Gold's Assault on the Clueless," which you can find here:

China prepares to buy foreign oil companies

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Spencer
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, February 22, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/4781037/China-pre...

China is preparing to open a new phase in its race for the world's resources by using its huge currency reserves to buy foreign oil and gas companies.

China real smart to keep buying Treasuries, Clinton says

Section: Daily Dispatches

Clinton Urges China to Keep Buying Treasuries

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Bloomberg News
Sunday, February 22, 2009

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apSqGtcNsqSY&refer=home

Swiss populist party wants gold recalled from U.S.

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Emma Thomasson
Reuters
Saturday, February 21, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/id...

ZURICH -- The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) called Saturday for retaliation against the United States over a U.S. tax probe into the country's biggest bank, UBS, that threatens prized banking secrecy.

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