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From Australian TV, a devastating parody of central banking
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-01-08 00:21 Section: Daily Dispatches12:19a ET Thursday, January 8, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
China is losing its taste for U.S. debt
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-07 23:33 Section: Daily DispatchesAn hour later you're bankrupt again.
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By Keith Bradsher
The New York Times
Wednesday, January 7, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08yuan.html?_r=...
Still nobody in Britain perceives purpose of those gold sales
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-07 23:19 Section: Daily DispatchesBritish Gold Sales Cost Public L5 Billion
By Christopher Hope
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/4162054/Gordo...
Barry Ritholtz: Here comes the commodity index rebalancing
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-07 11:11 Section: Daily Dispatches11:11a ET Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Market analyst Barry L. Ritholtz, director of equity research for Fusion IQ in New York, expresses skepticism about the "rebalancing" of the Dow Jones commodity index to diminish the gold component and increase the oil component. Ritholtz writes:
Central banks don't mind any amount of loss in gold
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-06 19:56 Section: Daily Dispatches7:46p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
It's fun to tweak the British government for the portfolio loss it incurred by selling its gold reserves at the bottom of the market some years ago, as the news story and commentary appended here do. It's more fun because the British government cannot give the candid answer that would provide the supposed justification.
Obama warns about years of trillion-dollar deficits
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-06 19:07 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jeff Zeleny
The New York Times
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/us/politics/07obama.html?_r=1&hp
Martin Armstrong's treatise touches on market manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-06 17:30 Section: Daily Dispatches5:25p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ted Butler: A specific issue
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-06 13:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1p ET Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
David Hale: Only one alternative to the dollar -- gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2009-01-05 23:59 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Hale
Financial Times, London
Monday, January 5, 2009
Demand is untarnished for gold, mining chief says
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2009-01-05 23:52 Section: Daily DispatchesBy William MacNamara
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, February 6, 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/69cab212-db92-11dd-be53-000077b07658.html?ncli...
In his wood-panelled office overlooking St James's Park in central London, Peter Hambro opens a cabinet of curiosities. From it he pulls a gold coin he says was minted in the area of Belgium "shortly after the year zero [AD]."