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'Mother of all gold bull markets remains intact,' Grandich tells Gold Report

Section: Daily Dispatches

11a PT Monday, February 12, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Interviewed by Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report, market analyst and mining company adviser Peter Grandich says "the mother of all gold bull markets remains intact." The interview is headlined "The Gospel of Gold According to Peter (Grandich)" and it's posted at The Gold Report here:

http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/12525

Iran presses ahead with attack on dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Garry White
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, February 12, 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/9077600/Iran-presses-ahea...

Gold needn't fear rising rates, Macleod says; and Calandra on a Russian play

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:18a PT Sunday, February 12, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sudan central bank raises dollar supply after gold sale

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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing
Reuters
Sunday, February 12, 2012

http://af.reuters.com/article/sudanNews/idAFL5E8DC3H720120212

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's central bank is increasing dollar supplies to local banks to stop a slide of the Sudanese pound after it generated more than $300 million from gold sales, a central bank official said on Sunday.

Vietnam has written the book on gold; the West should read it

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:38a PT Sunday, February 12, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Agence France-Presse story from Hanoi appended here demonstrates a few things not plainly understood by the financial news media and even economists in the West:

1) Gold is money, and sometimes much better money than governments offer.

2) Because of that, governments seek to control gold and its price.

What's crazier than creationism and gold? It's in your wallet

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:32p PT Saturday, February 11, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Lawrence Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary and president of Harvard, is reported to have remarked the other day that "the gold standard is the creationism of economics":

http://www.gata.org/node/10955

Gold advocate Pollitt 'cared more about being right than being rich'

Section: Daily Dispatches

Cynical Financial Adviser Forecast Gold's Astronomical Rise

By Nicholas Johnson
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Saturday, February 11, 2012

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/cynical-financial-adviser-forecast...

A 'controlled retreat' by central banks in the gold market isn't nearly enough

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:18p PT Thursday, February 9, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his commentary this week, "Gold Cars and Gas Stations," posted at GoldSeek, 24hGold, and 321Gold --

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1328632354.php

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-gold-cars-and-gas-statio...

Davies sees new interest in gold, fair value at $4,000

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:35p PT Thursday, February 9, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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