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The strong-dollar policy turns up again
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-03-30 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesChief of Staff Is Expected
to Shake Up 2 Key Teams
By Elisabeth Bumiller
The New York Times
Thursday, March 30, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/politics/30bush.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Joshua B. Bolten, the incoming White House
chief of staff, is expected to press President Bush to assemble new
Gold ETF sponsor sets sights on Asia for round-the-clock trading
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-03-30 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesTreasury Repeats that Strong Dollar is in U.S. Interest
From Reuters
Thursday, March 30, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?
type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-03-
30T160150Z_01_WAT005179_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-DOLLAR-URGENT.XML
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Treasury spokesman repeated on Thursday that a
strong dollar was in the U.S. interest and said that currency values
Ted Butler: Signed, sealed, delivered?
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2006-03-30 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alison Guerriere Ciaccio
Dow Jones Newswires
Friday, March 31, 2006
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060330/15/3zr0c.html
NEW YORK -- The World Gold Trust Services has its sights set on Asia
and the Middle East for the next roll-out of its highly successful
gold exchange-traded fund after gaining large market share in the
U.S. since the streetTRACKS Gold Shares ETF was launched in November
Former U.S. trade negotiator plots world''s escape from the dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2006-03-29 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Monday, March 27, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/summit/summitarticle.aspx?
type=summitNews&summit=LatinAmericaInvestmentSummit06&storyid=2006-
03-28T044406Z_01_N27318371_RTRUKOC_0_US-LATAM-SUMMIT-PENOLES-
PRICES.xml&show=all&src=cms
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Penoles, the world's top refined silver
Prepare for dollar collapse, Asian Development Bank warns
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-03-28 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:56p ET Sunday, March 26, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Alex Wallenwein, editor and publisher of the Euro vs.
Dollar Currency War Monitor, reflects on Reg Howe's
essay on the admission of the Bank for International
Settlements that it facilitates the rigging of the gold
market. You can find Wallenwein's essay -- "Reg
Howe's BIS Gold Shocker, and What It Means to
You" -- at SafeHaven.com here:
Credit investors ponder a GM-sized hole in the financial universe
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-03-28 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Agence France-Presse
via AlJazeera.net
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/50B0028B-B417-4FDE-866C-
842CB3280A4F.htm
East Asian economies need toprepare for a possible collapse of the
US dollar, the Asian Development Bank says.
The warning comes as the US trade deficit reaches a record high and
Penoles increases silver price outlook and will buy more silver concentrate
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2006-03-28 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy David Wigan
Reuters
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?
type=ousiv&storyID=2006-03-
28T111300Z_01_L27514894_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-MARKETS-AUTOS-GM-DC.XML
LONDON -- Like the elephant in the living room, the decline of
General Motors is a problem that investors don't want to think about
Howe and Landis: Now they tell us -- BIS confirms rigging gold prices
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-03-26 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bill Bonner
DailyReckoning.com
Friday, March 24, 2006
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues/2006/DRUS032406.html
"How do they do it?" asked an American visitor earlier this week.
How do they pay their bills? How can they afford to live in London?
Americans can stop worrying. The empire may be in decline, but
Bank of China executive urges trading dollars for euros and gold
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-03-26 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:21a ET Sunday, March 26, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
With a new essay, "Now They Tell Us: BIS Confirms
Rigging Gold Prices," Golden Sextant proprietors
and GATA consultants Reginald H. Howe and Robert
K. Landis claim vindication for Howe's lawsuit
against the Bank for International Settlements in
2000, which, while eventually dismissed on a
jurisdictional technicality, began the exposure
John Embry: Gold''s volatility shows weakening of price-suppression scheme
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2006-03-26 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Reuters
Monday, March 27, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?
type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-03-
27T022935Z_01_PEK157569_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-CHINA-RESERVES.XML
BEIJING -- China should use part of its fast-growing foreign
exchange reserves to buy gold as it seeks to adjust the asset mix to
hedge against risk, a Bank of China official was quoted on Monday as