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Mints struggle to meet metals demand

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gina Teel
Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Herald
Monday, October 27, 2008

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=5fc11134-5617-40d...

Safe-haven investors are on a shopping spree for precious metals, snapping up gold and silver as an antidote to topsy-turvy markets -- if they can find any, that is.

Peter Brimelow: Indian brides confront gold bears again

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Sunday, October 26, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/indian-brides-confront-gold-bears/...

NEW YORK -- Are we reaching the bottom in gold? The radical gold bugs think so.

Gold sales pick up phenomenally in India

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold Sales Shoot Up Phenomenally in This Festive Season

Gold Prices Had Plunged to Rs11,500-level per 10 Grams Last Week before Closing at Rs12,210 per 10 Grams Yesterday

From Press Trust of India
via LiveMint.com (Hindustan Times)
Sunday, October 26, 2008

http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/26171420/Gold-sales-shoots-up-phenomena....

Central banks poised to act against market panic

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jan Dahinten and Andrew Roche
Reuters
Sunday, October 26, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49N5VU20081026

Central banks are likely to launch new coordinated emergency action this week to calm panic in financial markets, which could be rocked further by data pointing to global recession.

Gene Arensberg: Bring the bullion banks down -- take metal off Comex

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:20p ET Friday, October 24, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his new "Got Gold Report" at Resource Investor, Gene Arensberg goes to war against the big gold and silver shorts on the commodities exchanges. He writes:

U.S. has plundered world with dollar, Chinese state paper rages

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Simon Rabinovitch
Reuters
Friday, October 24, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSPEK466920081024

BEIJING -- The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar's dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Friday.

Treasury considers aid to insurers too

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Karey Wutkowski and Patrick Rucker
Reuters
Friday, October 24, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49N7AB20081024

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department is closely studying how it could give relief to insurance companies under a $700 billion financial services rescue package, two sources familiar with the deliberations said on Friday.

Taiwan dumps Fannie, Freddie -- and Uncle Sam?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Randall W. Forsyth
Barron's
Friday, October 24, 2008

http://online.barrons.com/article_email/SB122482470725666021-lMyQjAxMDI4...

After Mao drove the Nationalists off the Mainland in 1949, the cry went up among U.S. conservatives, "Who lost China?"

John Lee: Deflationary depression? Where to go from here

Section: Daily Dispatches

7p ET Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Rob Kirby: Disinformation specialists ply their trade

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:22p ET Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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