Daily Dispatches

Peter Degraaf: Does manipulation render technical analysis obsolete?

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-21 21:26 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:20p ET Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst Peter Degraaf writes that technical analysis of a manipulated market like the gold market is still of some value insofar as it can help plot and predict the manipulation. He also acknowledges that the manipulators can make TA utterly useless. Degraaf writes:

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Michael Zielinski: U.S. Mint discouraging gold ownership

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-21 20:45 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:36p ET Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Coin market analyst Michael Zielinski, editor of the Mint News Blog, has analyzed the actions of the U.S. Mint over the last six months and gotten awfully suspicious. Zielinski concludes:

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Dominic Frisby: Gold is shifting from West to East

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-21 19:59 Section: Daily Dispatches

7:55p ET Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Thom Calandra: This is one bad, hard-asset crowd

Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2009-01-21 14:04 Section: Daily Dispatches

2p ET Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thom Calandra's new "ThomWatch" column at Stockhouse takes happy note of GATA's first decade of work. (We really hope to get rid of the gold price suppression scheme in our next 10 years.) Calandra's column is headlined "This Is One Bad, Hard-Asset Crowd," and you can find it at Stockhouse here:

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Rob Kirby: Questions begging answers

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-20 21:41 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:37p ET Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics in Toronto explains in commentary posted tonight at GoldSeek that gold is only one part of the U.S. government's surreptitious intervention in the markets. Kirby's commentary is headlined "Questions Begging Answers" and you can find it here:

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Ted Butler: Real silver availability

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-20 20:55 Section: Daily Dispatches

8:53p ET Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his commentary posted today, silver market analyst Ted Butler reflects on silver's supply, which may be a lot less than is generally thought, less even than Butler himself has thought. His commentary is headlined "Real Silver Availability" and you can find it at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

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John Kemp: Either bankruptcy or inflation for U.S., Britain

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-20 11:23 Section: Daily Dispatches

U.S. and U.K. on Brink of Debt Disaster

By John Kemp
Reuters
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/20/us-and-uk-on-brink-of-d...

The United States and the United Kingdom stand on the brink of the largest debt crisis in history.

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Asian central banks will devalue competitively, analyst says

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2009-01-20 11:09 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Patricia Lui
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atqsxuWIi9Q4&refer=home

SINGAPORE -- Asian central banks will pursue competitive devaluation of their currencies in the first half of the year and cut interest rates to buffer the impact of a global economic slump, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. said.