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Ted Butler: Precious metals ETFs may be just more manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

NY Gold Closes at 11-day High, Boosted by Oil

From Reuters
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060221/3/2g7hb.html

NEW YORK -- U.S. gold futures rose and settled at an 11-day high
Tuesday, as overnight strength in spot gold and firm oil prices
sparked speculative buying to extend gains from Monday, when U.S.

Resource Investor''s Jon Nones sees a ''Hubbert''s Peak'' in silver production

Section: Daily Dispatches

Nobody really knows who would owe whom
how much if the company ever collapsed

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By Henry Sender
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, February 16, 2006

The financial travails of General Motors Corp. have become a hot
topic in the credit-derivatives market, where protection against
corporate defaults is bought and sold. That is because a GM default,
which isn't immediately likely, could create severe strain, or

GM debt poses challenge to derivatives market

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:57p ET Thursday, February 16, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver Stock Report Editor Jason Hommel smashes
the Silver Users Association in this Resource
Investor report on the contention before the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission over an
exchange-traded fund in silver:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=17119

Latest German gold sales scheme reportedly abandoned

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jennifer Hughes
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dda665fc-9e58-11da-b641-0000779e2340.html

Net inflows into US markets dropped below the level needed to cover
the trade deficit for the first time in seven months in December,
prompting concern about the dangers of the current account deficit.

Grandich Letter: GATA knows best what''s happening in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

From AFX News
via Forbes.com
Thursday, February 16, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/02/16/afx2531705.html

BERLIN -- The German government has abandoned plans that would allow
the Bundesbank to invest proceeds from gold sales in a special fund,
sources said.

Under the government's proposal, the Bundesbank could have

Ron Paul cites gold price suppression in ''The End of Dollar Hegemony''

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:55p ET Thursday, February 16, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's special alert from Peter Grandich's
investment letter offers more support for GATA.
Grandich writes:

"Many in the investment community and especially
in the media continue to dismiss or take lightly what
I believe is the single biggest factor behind the rise
in gold, and the people who know this reason best

Jason Hommel smashes the Silver Users Association over silver ETF

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Thursday, February 16, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who at
GATA's urging a few years introduced legislation to
require the U.S. Treasury Department to obtain the
approval of Congress for intervention in the gold
market, yesterday gave a speech in Congress that
was so important that it is sure to be ignored.

Paul not only cited the U.S. government's gold price

Paul Craig Roberts: Everything you''re told officially about the economy is a lie

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:25p ET Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

SilverSeek.com will hold the first Internet
silver conference Wednesday at 11 a.m. Eastern
time. Speakers will include GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy, David Morgan of Silver Investor,
Julian Phillips of Gold Forecaster, Jason
Hommel of Silver Stock Report, and Bernard
von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar.

Each speaker will make an illustrated 30-

Drop in U.S. inflows spooks dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Job Disinformation from The New York Times

By Paul Craig Roberts
via VDare.com
Friday, February 3, 2006

http://www.vdare.com/roberts/060203_jobs.htm

On Friday, Feb. 3, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the
nonfarm payroll jobs report for January. New York Times reporter
Vikas Bajaj wrote an upbeat news story, obviously based on a Labor

China''s official voice sounds awfully partial to gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, February 13, 2006

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B0964EAB0%
2D94B4%2D4E81%2DB523%2DC20C118A98C9%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

NEW YORK -- Gold breaks sharply off multi-year highs. But the gold
bugs aren't flinching, including one of the most famous.

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