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China is quietly revaluing its currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Spencer
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=D0TNOELNQPCIFQFIQ...

BEIJING -- The People's Bank of China may at last be substantially revaluing its currency -- even if officially it has told no one.

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.

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