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Markets don't believe Fed's reluctance to keep cutting rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Krishna Guha and Michael Mackenzie
Financial Times, London
Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b311de72-947c-11dc-9aaf-0000779fd2ac.html

Do you wonder why central banking also is conducted in secret?

Section: Daily Dispatches

OPEC Blunder Reveals
Saudi-Iran Disagreement on Dollar

From Agence France-Presse
via Yahoo News
Friday, November 16, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071116/wl_mideast_afp/oilopecsummitiransau...

Saudis fear that open discussion by OPEC could collapse dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Saudi Arabia Won't Include
U.S. Dollar in OPEC Talks

By Maher Chmaytelli and Fred Pals
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=currency&sid=aaQhf...

Liberty Dollar posts search and seizure warrants

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:20p ET Friday, November 16, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus provides more information about the FBI's raid on the organization, including the search and seizure warrants, here:

http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/legal/raid.htm

Attack on Liberty Dollar also seized metal dies in Idaho

Section: Daily Dispatches

FBI Raids Seize Dies, Records in Coeur d'Alene

By Bill Morlin
Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review
Friday, November 16, 2007

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=12398

A perfect storm for gold as mines left empty

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, November 15, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/15/bcngol...

The era of "peak gold" has arrived.

Try as they might, miners cannot find enough ore at viable costs to replace their fast-depleting reserves, even if they dig miles into the centre of the earth.

Gulf Arabs increasingly expected to ditch dollar pegs

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Garnham
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 15, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14499d74-93b0-11dc-acd0-0000779fd2ac.html

Speculation heightened on Thursday that Gulf Arab states were preparing to ditch their currencies' pegs against the dollar as the United Arab Emirates expressed concerns over the policy for the second time this week.

FBI raid on Liberty Dollar confirmed without explanation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:25p ET Thursday, November 15, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Appended here are two news accounts confirming the FBI raid on the office of Liberty Dollar in Evansville, Indiana, which was reported in this morning's GATA Dispatch.

Feds raid Liberty Dollar and seize and freeze everything

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:15a ET Thursday, November 15, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Liberty Dollar organization announced this morning, via the letter appended here, that federal agents today raided its offices in Evansville, Indiana, and confiscated all its property and equipment.

Rogers mocks Bernanke's indifference to dollar's fall

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Aaron Pan and Paul Gordon
Bloomberg News Service
Thursday, November 15, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aXH9wCx1oydw

Investor Jim Rogers urged people to get out of the dollar and says he expects to be rid of all his U.S. currency assets by summer next year.

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