Daily Dispatches

Peter Brimelow: For radical gold bugs, a rally is overdue

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-11-17 09:41 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, November 17, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/radical-goldbugs-rally-overdue/sto...

NEW YORK -- Gold had a good week, in the end. And the battered bugs are regrouping again.

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Tribe is long gone but its money is still pretty good

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-11-16 16:38 Section: Daily Dispatches

Ancient Celtic Coin Cache Found in Netherlands

By Toby Sterling
Associated Press
Thursday, November 13, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_celtic_co...

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Which is the free country indeed?

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-11-16 16:28 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:23p CT Sunday, November 16, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Your secretary/treasurer's remarks at the New Orleans Investment Conference in regard to the freedom to own gold in the United States, Russia, and China prompted a response from Adi Hadi of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, emphasizing the point those remarks meant to make. Hadi writes:

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Gene Arensberg: Gold, silver premiums highest in years

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-11-16 15:07 Section: Daily Dispatches

2p CT Sunday, November 16, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The new "Got Gold Report" of Resource Investor's Gene Arensberg discloses that conditions in the gold and silver markets have gotten even more explosive in recent days. Arensberg reports:

-- Three or fewer U.S. banks hold 51 percent of the commercial short positions in gold on the New York Commodities Exchange.

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Judy Shelton: Stable money is the key to recovery

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-11-15 17:30 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Judy Shelton
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, November 14, 2008

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122663373660027575.html

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Larry Edelson: The G-20's secret debt solution

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-11-15 11:30 Section: Daily Dispatches

10:20a CT Saturday, November 15, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Larry Edelson of Weiss Research foresees an upward revaluation of gold as the secret solution to the international debt deflation problem. His commentary is headlined "The G-20's Secret Debt Solution" and you can find it here:

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-g-20s-secret-debt-solution-27996

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Iran says its reserves have been put into gold

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-11-15 11:08 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Zahra Hosseinian
Reuters
Saturday, November 15, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Oil/idUSTRE4AE1F820081115

TEHRAN -- Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July.

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Richard Russell: I'm starting to think gold is manipulated

Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2008-11-14 17:00 Section: Daily Dispatches

3:53p CT Friday, November 14, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A subscriber to Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letter who is a longtime participant in GATA sends the excerpt that is below from Russell's letter Thursday night. Our friend headlines the excerpt, "That Didn't Take Long." And yet Russell still got there sooner than some other worthies.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer