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Barclays, RBS prepare emergency credit with Fed

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ian Dey
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, October 21, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XKBX04TQ1EM4BQFIQ...

Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have lined up emergency funds of up to $30 billion (L15 billion) from the US Federal Reserve to bail out American clients caught up in the global credit crunch.

U.S. vetoed mention of falling dollar in G-7's statement

Section: Daily Dispatches

Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, October 21, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/21/cng712...

WASHINGTON -- European finance ministers this weekend failed in their bid to slap down the United States for allowing the dollar to plunge to record lows against the euro.

G-7's silence on dollar construed as license to keep selling

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar May Extend Slump as G-7
Fails to Address Record Slide

By Bo Nielsen and Min Zeng
Bloomberg News Service
Saturday, October 20, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKBy2zsuydgk&refer=us

Russia is OK with a gradual decline of U.S. dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Itar-Tass News Agency, Moscow
Saturday, October 20, 2007

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11988432&PageNum=0

WASHINGTON -- Russia is interested in gradual U.S. dollar decline, Russian Vice Premier and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said. He participated in the Group of Eight finance minister and central bank head meeting in Washington.

Greenspan rescued LTCM but isn't wild about new bailout

Section: Daily Dispatches

Greenspan Questions 'Superfund'

By Krishna Guha and David Wighton in New York
Financial Times, London
Friday, October 19, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f79b248-7e5c-11dc-8fac-0000779fd2ac.html?ncli...

Michael Kosares: What gold owners can learn from the stock bull market of the '90s

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Price Relativity

What Gold Owners Can Learn from
the Stock Bull Market of the 1990s

By Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
www.USAGold.com
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

http://www.usagold.com/amk/usagoldmarketupdate101707.html

Australasian Investment Review notes gold market manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Big Move Coming in Gold Price?

From the Australasian Investment Review
www.aireview.com.au
via Yahoo News
Thursday, October 18, 2007

http://au.biz.yahoo.com/071018/27/1g3fl.html

For many investors, the gold market is an esoteric one, to put it mildly.

Peter Brimelow: U.S. disclosure cited as proof of gold cartel's price-capping efforts

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Thursday, October 18, 2007

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gold-bugs-were-right/story.aspx?gu...

NEW YORK -- Gold froths, but the gold bugs think they have new reason to be confident.

Recently I asked: "Could gold be 'melting up?'"

Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans reopens Saturday with gold exhibit

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stacey Plaisance
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071016/ap_en_ot/old_mint_gold_1

NEW ORLEANS -- The Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans is reopening to the public for the first time since Hurricane Katrina with an exhibit this weekend that couldn't be more fitting: "Gold."

GATA publicizes mobilization of U.S. gold; will you support our work?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:53p ET Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Tonight GATA distributed an international press release via Business Wire about the discovery by our consultant, Freemarket Gold & Money Report editor James Turk, that U.S. Treasury Department documents confirm the recent mobilization of U.S. gold reserves to suppress the price of gold. That press release is appended.

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