Daily Dispatches

Gulf petro powers to launch currency in new threat to dollar hegemony

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-12-16 20:26 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6819136/Gulf-petro-powers-t...

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Discount pushes Canadian gold trust into open-end EFT

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-12-16 00:14 Section: Daily Dispatches

By David Pett
National Post / Financial Post, Toronto
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2340742

Access to gold bullion continues to expand for Canadian investors, after Claymore Investments Inc. announced it will convert the closed-end Claymore Gold Bullion Trust into an open-end exchange traded fund in January.

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Fabrice Taylor: The gold bubble myth

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-12-15 19:23 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Fabrice Taylor
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Monday, December 14, 2009

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/...

It's easy to say gold is a bubble. It's up more than 26 percent in the past six months, so it has to be, right?

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J.S. Kim: Disinformation obscures great opportunity in gold

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-12-15 11:29 Section: Daily Dispatches

11:30a ET Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

J.S. Kim, proprietor of the SmartKnowledgeU investment advisory service, cites GATA's work in his new essay, "An Unbelievable Opportunity in Gold," in which he argues that gold is subject to enormous disinformation in the West. You can find Kim's essay at his Internet site, the Underground Investor, here:

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Nouriel Roubini thinks he knows nearly everything about gold

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2009-12-14 17:54 Section: Daily Dispatches

5:50p ET Monday, December 14, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Nouriel Roubini, the celebrity economist, has just published a denunciation, "The New Bubble in the Barbarous Relic That Is Gold":

http://www.roubini.com/analysis/91695.php

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Ted Butler: Extreme speculation

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2009-12-14 16:54 Section: Daily Dispatches

4:50p ET Monday, December 14, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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U.S. Mint resumes bullion coin sales with rationing

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2009-12-14 14:44 Section: Daily Dispatches

2:46p ET Monday, December 14, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Mike Zielinski of the Mint News Blog reports that the U.S. Mint has resumed sales of its suspended bullion coins but has reinstated its rationing system. You can find Zielinski's report at Mint News Blog here:

http://mintnewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/return-of-gold-and-silver-eagle...

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What a revelation: Gold trading can rig currency markets

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2009-12-12 14:26 Section: Daily Dispatches

2:17p ET Saturday, December 12, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Martin Hutchinson, business and economics editor for United Press International and regular contributor to PrudentBear.com, writes in his new commentary there, headlined "Sliding Back Towards a Gold Standard," that the Federal Reserve could regulate the dollar's value by buying and selling gold.