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It's 'GATA Goes to Washington,' thanks to Christian Landolt

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:50p ET Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Congratulations and thanks to Christian Landolt of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, for being first to suggest the name GATA has chosen for its April 18-19 conference, "GATA Goes to Washington," to which we will add the subtext, "Anybody Seen Our Gold?"

Ted Butler: Doin' the right thing

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:20p ET Monday, January 7, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Brimelow: Gold bugs savor Christmas cheer

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, January 7, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BBBC65065%2D057C...

NEW YORK -- The allegedly traditional Christmas-New Year trading lull produced spectacular action in gold and gold stocks. The gold bugs think it might have been decisive.

Chinese investors favor gold but fear futures

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alfred Cang and Lucy Hornby
Reuters
Monday, January 7, 2008

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKSHA21677020080107?sp=true

SHANGHAI/BEIJING -- In the world of Chinese finance, gold is everywhere.

Emergency measures loom as Bush hauls out the PPT

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bush Can Buy Time
As Property Bubble Bursts

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, January 7, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView...

Bears beware. The New Deal of 2008 is in the works.

Governments will wreck their currencies to save banking system

Section: Daily Dispatches

Payback Time:
Banks Have Battle Ahead
to Restore Financial Standing

By Peter Thal Larsen
Financial Times, London
Sunday, January 6, 2008

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6185d5c6-bc69-11dc-bcf9-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

Deepcaster letter grasps the market-manipulating purpose of derivatives

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:45a ET Sunday, January 6, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The latest Deepcaster letter, posted today at GoldSeek, pursues what your secretary/treasurer always has considered a dead end: the complaint that the Federal Reserve is a private bank outside the U.S. government.

'A Nation of Counterfeiters' hints that everything old is new again

Section: Daily Dispatches

Book Review: The Deluge Before the Dollar

By Stephen Kotkin
The New York Times
Sunday, January 6, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06shelf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

In "A Nation of Counterfeiters" (Harvard University Press, $29.95), Stephen Mihm takes us back to the screwball days between the American Revolution and the Civil War, when the dollar did not exist.

David Bond: Doubling the silver bet

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:15a ET Sunday, January 6, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

David Bond of the Wallace Street Journal has written a wonderful overview of the old and new Silver Valley in Idaho, which is gearing up again with the once and future money. Bond's essay is headlined "Doubling the Silver Bet" and you can find it at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

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