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James Turk: America's second-biggest bank failure

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:30p ET Saturday, July 12m 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Fed's discount window said open to Fannie and Freddie

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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Sound; Panic Unwarranted, Dodd Says

By Romaine Bostick
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, July 11, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aP1BQwOOSoWU

Russia aggressively using energy deals in foreign policy

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Gazprom's Libya Bid Imperils Moves to Curb Russia's Energy Clout

By Sebastian Alison
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, July 11, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahS3Z_wUYD0c&refer=home

MOSCOW -- Moves by Russia's state-run OAO Gazprom to buy African energy assets threaten to thwart U.S. efforts to limit Moscow's use of oil and gas as political weapons.

U.S. plots takeover of two mortgage giants

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By Stephen Labaton and Steven R. Weisman
The New York Times
Friday, July 11, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/business/11fannie.html?_r=1&hp&

Russia is most likely midwife of a fairer world economic order

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Blame the Dollar

By Massoud Hedeshi
Al Jazeera.net, Doha, Qatar
Thursday, July 10, 2008

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2008/06/200862371431417772.html

The US economic powerhouse is running out of ideas and cash as it jostles with a massive national debt, housing, and financial crises, rising inflation, and a depreciating currency.

South Korea increases currency market intervention

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:40p ET Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Abu Dhabi buys Chrysler Building; next -- Mount Rushmore?

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By Amy Westfeldt
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_bi_ge/chrysler_building_5

NEW YORK -- An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a 75 percent stake in the Chrysler Building, one of the best-known landmarks on the city skyline.

USAGold's annual investment survey: Gold beats all except CRB index

Section: Daily Dispatches

7p ET Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

South Korea to triple base metal reserves

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By Miyoung Kim
Reuters
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSSE...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Resource-hungry South Korea plans to triple its base metal reserve stockpiles to ease tight domestic supply as manufacturers struggle to secure raw materials due to soaring commodity prices, the government said Wednesday.

Vegas conference features debate on gold price suppression

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1:15a ET Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Hard Assets Investment Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9 and 10, will feature something for which GATA has been practically begging for years -- a debate over whether financial institutions are colluding to suppress the price of gold.

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