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Section: Daily Dispatches

11p ET Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bailout plan is vast patronage under cover of martial law

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:19p ET Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Wall Street Journal story appended here discloses what seem to be the two crucial details of the Bush administration's plan to rescue the financial system.

Bush would borrow $700 billion to buy bad mortgages

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Saturday, September 20, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080920/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown;_ylt=...

Asia makes big screens and we just watch TV

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Chris Powell
Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut
Saturday, September 20, 2008

http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2008/09/20/chris_powell/doc48d45...

What is it about the United States that every generation it must have a catastrophically mistaken imperial war and a catastrophically expensive rescue of its predatory financial class?

Joe Nocera: U.S. govt. has little idea of what it's doing

Section: Daily Dispatches

A Hail-Mary Pass, But No Receiver in the End Zone

By Joe Nocera
The New York Times
Friday, September 19, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/business/20nocera.html?_r=1&8dpc&o

It was the end of the worst week for financial markets since 1929, and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. looked sleep-deprived.

Max Keiser: Financial houses would acquire banks to rob them

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:40a ET Saturday, September 20, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Liberty Dollar founder defiant at Silver Summit

Section: Daily Dispatches

Legal Issues Still Dog Liberty Dollar

By Rick Thomas
Coeur d'Alene Press
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Friday, September 19, 2008

http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2008/09/20/business/bus01.txt

COEUR d'ALENE -- All that was missing was shackles on his ankles.

Citigroup report credits gold bugs for seeing danger of derivatives

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:55p ET Friday, September 19, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Citigroup gold report cited in today's dispatch, which credits gold bugs for seeing that derivatives would destroy the world financial system, can be found here:

http://www.gata.org/files/CitigroupGoldReport-09-17-2008.pdf

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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Bugs were right about derivatives disaster, Citigroup analysts say

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:30a ET Friday, September 19, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb's Dorothy Kosich writes about a new report from Citigroup analysts John H. Hill and Graham Wark, who last year wrote a report acknowledging that central banks were strategically intervening in the gold market to suppress gold's price. You can find their report from last year here:

Treasury taps ESF to guarantee money-market funds

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Martin Crutsinger
Associated Press
Friday, September 19, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_bi_ge/fund_rescue;_ylt=AsiOvFv...

WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department announced Friday it will tap into a Depression-era fund to provide guarantees for the nation's money market mutual funds.

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