Daily Dispatches

By Eoin Callan
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 3, 2006

http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/061203/fto120320061053046778.html?.v=1

Hank Paulson, US treasury secretary, will on Monday begin a series of discussions with industry leaders to hammer out the Bush administration's policy towards China ahead of a high-level delegation to Beijing next week.

The former head of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, will on Monday meet executives from manufacturing companies, including Procter & Gamble, before on Wednesday sitting down with financial services companies -- including Citigroup -- as well as those from other sectors.

11:25a ET Sunday, December 3, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney's James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, reports that gold continues its rise not just against the dollar but also against most major currencies as the markets begin to realize the scope of the monetary debasement under way worldwide. Turk's new commentary is titled "The Breakout Gains Momentum" and you can find it in the "Founder's Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney home page here:

Plunging Dollar Will Set
World Markets Reeling

Heather Stewart
The Observer, London
Sunday, December 3, 2006

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1962449,00.html

The slowdown in the US economy, which has sent the dollar into freefall over the past fortnight, will have devastating knock-on effects in markets around the world, analysts warn.

As the US slows and consumers in the world's biggest economy feel the buying power of the dollar in their pocket declining, global growth will be hit hard, economists say. The greenback took yet another turn for the worse on Friday, after a survey of the US manufacturing sector showed output declining for the first time in more than three years.

By Steven R. Weisman
The New York Times
Friday, December 1, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/business/02dollar.html

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- As the dollar tumbled against the euro this week, reflecting fresh concern about a possible weakening of the American economy, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. issued the usual phrase from the catechism: "A strong dollar is clearly in our nation's best interest."