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U.S. mint suspends gold coin sales; futures price is a fiction

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:25a ET Friday, August 15, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The U.S. Mint has suspended sales of American eagle gold coins and is refusing orders from dealers, two coin and bullion dealers confirmed Thursday.

Richard Daughty: The great variety of poor rich people

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:45a ET Thursday, August 14, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Richard Daughty, general partner for Smith Consulting Group and writer for The Daily Reckoning, who is better known as the Mogambo Guru, makes favorable reference to five -- count 'em, five! -- GATA officers and consultants in his new commentary, "The Great Variety of Poor Rich People," which you can find at GoldSeek here:

Jim Sinclair: European Central Bank intervention is out in the open

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jim Sinclair
www.JSMineSet.com
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Welcome back to the Bretton Woods Agreement: currency bands modernized and revitalized.

You would have to be blind not to see it. Today Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, returned to his strategy statement that inflation is a more compelling issue for the ECB than the level of economic activity.

Britain falls into negative real interest rates

Section: Daily Dispatches

UK Inflation Exceeds Interest Rates for First Time Since 1981

By Edmund Conway
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/08/13/cncpi1...

Interest rates have fallen below the cost of living for the first time in 27 years.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Implosion of Europe will make $800 gold a bargain

Section: Daily Dispatches

Stage 2 of Gold Bull Market Is Just Beginning

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ambrose_evans-pritchard/blog/2008/08/12/sta...

Al Korelin will moderate Las Vegas debate on gold price manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:40p ET Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ted Butler: Back to the start with silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:30p ET Monday, August 11, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Gold near a bottom? Ask the Western central banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:20p ET Monday, August 11, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Undaunted gold bug Murphy looks to East

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, August 11, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BAB3C50F3-4A8A-4...

NEW YORK -- Gold gaps down (again). But the gold bugs are grimly determined (again).

Note: They were right last time.

Are central banks getting it all wrong?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Sumeet Desai
Reuters
Friday, August 8, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSL721669220080808

LONDON -- The world may have changed on August 9 last year as the credit crunch first bit, and even some policymakers are beginning to question whether the way they work out what's happening in the economy is flawed.

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