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China says investment plans won't affect its dollar assets

Section: Daily Dispatches

Maybe ... if owners of hard assets around the world are willing to trade them to China for China's U.S. government bonds and not liquidate the bonds and spend the cash on anything themselves. There's a sucker born every minute, but are there really THAT many suckers outside China?

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By the Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Keeping housing prices up solves subprime problem, Greenspan says

Section: Daily Dispatches

Subprime Spillover Is Unlikely,
Former Fed Chairman Greenspan Says

By Brian Skoloff
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Thursday, March 15, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_bi_ge/greenspan;_ylt=AsWhyHnP4...

Two more lunches for GATA sympathizers in Oz and environs

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:14p ET Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA sympathizers in Australia and denizens of the southern hemisphere nearby, from Polynesia to Bouvet Island, are cordially invited to a couple of lunches next month in Sydney and Canberra.

The details:

Sydney: noon, Thursday, April 12, at the Tattersalls Club, 181 Elizabeth St, Sydney City.

Foreign love for U.S. assets at risk in subprime drop

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jennifer Ablan
Reuters
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1428164620070314

NEW YORK -- The deepest housing decline in 16 years could slow an inflow of global capital that has more than funded the massive fiscal and external deficits in the United States.

Goldman pays $2 million to settle 'naked' short-selling case

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070314/goldman_sec_settlement.html?.v=1

WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s clearing unit has agreed to pay $2 million in civil penalties to settle allegations that it allowed customers to illegally profit by selling securities short just before public offerings of stock, regulators said.

Housing decline, subprime mortgage crash 'largely contained,' Paulson says

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From Reuters
via Yahoo News
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070313/bs_nm/usa_subprime_paulson_dc;_ylt=A...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Tuesday a decline in U.S. housing activity has caused some damage in subprime mortgage markets but was not hurting the overall economy.

Blanchard & Co. research note: European central bank gold sales declining

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Neal R. Ryan
Vice President and Director of Economic Research
Blanchard and Co. Inc., New Orleans
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

www.blanchardonline.com

Stewart Armstrong: United we will stand

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:48p Et Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mining industry analyst Stewart Armstrong has written a wonderful rant about gold, life, the universe, and everything, including a few generous compliments for GATA. It's called "United We Will Stand" and you can find it at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/StewartArmstrong/1173806569.php

Hoping to turn party around, Ron Paul seeks Republican presidential nomination

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gary Martin
San Antonio (Texas) Express-News
Monday, March 12, 2007

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA031307.03A.Ron-Paul.3...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul of Texas formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, saying people want to hear his libertarian message of limited government -- and he's willing to deliver it.

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