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Commodity boom backfires on consumers
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2008-02-29 21:52 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Michael Mackenzie
Financial Times, London
Friday, February 29, 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94457f9e-e6e3-11dc-b5c3-0000779fd2ac.html
James Turk: Follow the trend
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2008-02-29 15:45 Section: Daily Dispatches3:45p ET Friday, February 29, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Paul takes Bernanke to school about inflation
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 21:39 Section: Daily Dispatches9:30p ET Thursday, February 28, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, got the better of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in an exchange yesterday during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
Anything to divert gold demand from physical to paper
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 18:31 Section: Daily DispatchesNew Exchange-Traded Notes
Aim to Double, Short Gold
By John Spence
MarketWatch.com
Thursday, February 28, 2008
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B74B66BFC%2D9A33...
IMF gold sales may be off-market transactions
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 18:15 Section: Daily DispatchesMaybe this bit of gold dishoarding is
just the price of keeping China and
Russia from doing a lot more dishoarding
of dollars.
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No Timetable Yet for Proposed Gold Sales
From Reuters
via The Guardian, London
Thursday, February 28, 2008
G7's readiness to 'stabilize' markets reiterated by Japanese official
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 12:51 Section: Daily DispatchesWhat's the difference between "stabilizing"
and "rigging"? Probably just which side of
the trade you're on.
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By Natsuko Waki and Toni Vorobyova
Reuters
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Another public pension fund official recommends gold
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 10:59 Section: Daily Dispatches11a ET Thursday, February 28, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
John Rubino, co-author with GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar," has just found a new supporter of gold within the financial establishment: Shayne McGuire, director of global research for the Texas Teacher Retirement System. Interviewed by Rubino, McGuire remarks of gold:
Calpers approves big increase in commodity investments
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 10:30 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Saijel Kishan
Bloomberg News Service
Thursday, February 28, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aps_cctZFFP0
The California Public Employees Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, may increase its commodities investments 16-fold to $7.2 billion through 2010 as raw materials prices surge to records.
Even Rhona O'Connell thinks IMF gold sales will mean little
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2008-02-28 08:52 Section: Daily Dispatches8:45a ET Thursday, February 28, 2008
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Ron Paul shares the political wealth with like-minded candidates
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2008-02-27 21:55 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jonathan Allen
Congressional Quarterly, Washington
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002677795
Ron Paul is starting to give like-minded candidates a taste of the political gold he discovered on the Internet by lending his endorsement and renting out his donor list.
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