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Too big to fail: Germany rescues subprime lender

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Tim Bartz, Elisabeth Atzler,
Joanna Chung, Paul J. Davies,
and Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, August 1, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/46fe1d80-4063-11dc-9d0c-0000779fd2ac.html

Selling Italian reserves to close debt would be just 'a drop in the sea'

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30a ET Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

More bogeymen contrived to try to scare the gold market

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:55p ET Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones reports that Italy's government is considering selling its gold reserves in the name of reducing the national debt -- a grand new bogeyman to try to scare the gold market with.

Ted Butler sees 'an ugly new record'; and Paramount lists on AMEX

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:40p ET Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler reports that the price of silver was driven down last week only by the creation of the largest commercial short position on record. Butler's new commentary is titled "An Ugly New Record" and you can find it at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

India, another rich country insisting on being poor -- until now, maybe

Section: Daily Dispatches

New Rules to Boost
India's Gold, Diamond Output

From Reuters
via Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C07%5C31%5Cstory_31-...

Credit derivatives 'performing poorly' in crisis

Section: Daily Dispatches

Credit Insurance Costs Soar to Record

By Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Gillian Tett
Financial Times, London
Monday, July 30, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/041c1122-3ed1-11dc-bfcf-0000779fd2ac.html

Anti-gold cartel's UBS plans fund to short commodities

Section: Daily Dispatches

UBS to Launch New Product for Commodities

By Javier Blas
Financial Times, London
Monday, July 30, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9c7d8216-3ed6-11dc-bfcf-0000779fd2ac.html

Gee, you think they might be trying to suppress gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

3p ET Monday, July 30, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A writer for MineWeb, Lawrence Williams, notes in commentary posted yesterday that gold sales by the European Central Bank increasingly seem intended to prevent the gold price from breaking out and to support the dollar.

All together now: Uh-DUH!

Bundesbank looks to learn from its past

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ralph Atkins
Financial Times, London
Sunday, July 29, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6442812e-3de8-11dc-8f6a-0000779fd2ac.html

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Mervyn King, current governor of the Bank of England, was astonished on his first visit to the Bundesbank in the early 1990s, at least according to his host, Otmar Issing, then chief economist at Germany’s central bank.

An exchange with Jay Taylor about deflation

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:16a ET Sunday, July 29, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Newsletter writer and longtime GATA supporter Jay Taylor had an exchange with your secretary/treasurer about Saturday's GATA Dispatch on the chance of deflation. Taylor has kindly agreed to let his comments be distributed here, so they are appended, along with a few more comments from me.

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