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Even Jon Nadler starts to suspect market manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 23:32 Section: Daily Dispatches11:32p ET Monday, April 7, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
IMF still needs OK from Congress; says it won't add to official sales
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 17:44 Section: Daily DispatchesIMF Board Backs Gold Sale Proposal to Boost Income
By Maya Jackson Randall
Dow Jones Newswires
via Nasdaq.com
Monday, April 7, 2008
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080407%5cACQDJO...
Is gold going east to keep oil principalities in line?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 17:17 Section: Daily Dispatches5:10p ET Monday, April 7, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If one puts today's news together ...
1) The Arabian Gulf oil principalities say they'll stick with the U.S. dollar until they achieve monetary union in 2010 (see the report appended here).
IMF proposes selling 403 tonnes of gold to raise $11 billion
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 16:51 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Monday, April 7, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080407/bs_afp/imfbudgetinvestgold_08040720...
WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund Monday proposed the sale of 403.3 tonnes of gold for about $11 billion as part of a wide-ranging financial overhaul, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.
Will Islamic principles require real gold on hand?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 14:47 Section: Daily DispatchesOr will they be more like Western principles?
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Gold Council, Commodities Centre Plan Gold Share Venture
By Will McSheehy and Glen Carey
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, April 7, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=azHtWwtMfZUM&refer=a...
Good thing there's no inflation -- just maybe starvation
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 00:23 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Marianne Stigset and Tony Dreibus
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, April 7, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahaT0.5kV1JI&refer=home
From Cairo to New Delhi to Shanghai, the run on rice is threatening to disrupt worldwide food supplies as much as the scarcity of confidence on Wall Street earlier this year roiled credit markets.
Bid in the fund-raising auction at GATA's Washington conference
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-04-07 00:12 Section: Daily Dispatches12:11a ET Monday, April 7, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
With less than two weeks to our conference, "GATA Goes to Washington -- Anybody Seen Our Gold?," to be held Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, we have developed an excellent lineup of speakers and presentations. The conference also will offer those who attend a chance to visit with old and new friends.
Gene Arensberg: Gold, silver 'bubbles' pricked? Rubbish
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-04-06 21:31 Section: Daily Dispatches9:25p ET Sunday, April 6, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Chinese investors want market manipulation as in U.S.
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-04-05 14:25 Section: Daily DispatchesChina In Too Deep to Gloat Over Subprime
By Geoff Dyer
Financial Times, London
Friday, April 4, 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85afebc8-0258-11dd-9388-000077b07658.html