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Liquidity crisis grows as Libor rates gap hits 20-year high

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By Philip Aldrick
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/09/05/cnlibo...

Pressure is mounting on the Bank of England to intervene in the credit crisis after money-market lending rates jumped to a 20-year record and economists warned that central banks have "not properly recognised the dangers" ahead.

Letting euro appreciate risks deflation, Nobel laureate Mundell warns

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By Steven C. Johnson and Kevin Plumberg
Reuters
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN0443888520070905?rpc=44&...

NEW YORK -- The euro's steady appreciation against the dollar in the last several years threatens to devastate the European economy by tipping it into deflation, Nobel Prize laureate Robert Mundell said on Tuesday.

Ted Butler: Actions speak louder than words

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4:40p ET Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Will Japan be next to feel fallout of U.S. financial crisis?

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/09/04/cnjapa...

Japan's economy has slowed sharply over the summer and may now be on the brink of recession, dampening hopes that Asia will buttress world growth as America battles the sub-prime housing crisis.

Jay Taylor addresses inflation/deflation and junior miners on BNN

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2p ET Monday, September 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Treasury market volatility is highest in three years

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By Elizabeth Stanton and Daniel Kruger
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aBEqFwt9XgUs&refer=home

James Turk: Gold closes August at nearly a record high

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7p ET Sunday, September 2, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Don't look now, but GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, has gotten out his charts again and reports that gold finished August just off a record high -- the third-highest monthly closing price ever.

Too-low interest rates caused housing boom and bust, central bankers told

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By Alister Bull
Reuters
Saturday, September 1, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN0144589820070901

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- In rare public criticism of Alan Greenspan, former U.S. Undersecretary for International Affairs John Taylor said on Saturday that ultra-low Federal Reserve interest rates had stoked the U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust.

John Hathaway: A new chapter for gold

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12:35a ET Sunday, September 2, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

John Hathaway, manager of the Tocqueville Gold Fund, argues in his latest essay, "A New Chapter for Gold," that the turmoil in the credit markets is the ideal scenario for launching gold to record highs. You can find Hathaway's essay at Gold-Eagle here:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/hathaway083107.html

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