Daily Dispatches

Ted Butler: Danger zone

Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2008-01-15 20:07 Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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There's no inflation, but British food costs are soaring anyway

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-01-14 22:17 Section: Daily Dispatches

Food Cost Increase Adds L750 to Annual Bill

By James Kirkup
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NNERV0R01VRVVQFIQM...

Food prices are accelerating at their fastest rate since records began, fuelling a rise in the average family's shopping bill of L750 a year.

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Registration is open for GATA's Washington conference

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-01-14 21:55 Section: Daily Dispatches

9:47p ET Monday, January 14, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Registration is now open for GATA's next conference -- "GATA Goes to Washington: Anybody Seen Our Gold?" -- to be held just across the Potomac River at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City hotel and conference center in Arlington, Virginia, from Thursday through Saturday, April 17-19.

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Fed has little room to keep cutting rates, European central banker warns

Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2008-01-14 16:50 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, January 14, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/14/bcnfed...

Rumours of an emergency rate cut over coming days by the US Federal Reserve have swept the global markets, setting off a fresh plunge in the dollar.

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Anna Schwartz blames Fed for sub-prime crisis

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-01-13 16:13 Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Sunday, January 13, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/13/ccschw...

As rebukes go in the close-knit world of central banking, few hurt as much as the scathing indictment of US Federal Reserve policy by Professor Anna Schwartz.

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Odds rising for recession, rate cuts, tax rebates

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-01-13 12:29 Section: Daily Dispatches

Odds Are Growing for Economic Recession

By Jeannine Aversa
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Sunday, January 13, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_on_bi_ge/recession_odds;_ylt=Arwv...

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James Turk: Uncharted territory for gold

Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2008-01-13 12:22 Section: Daily Dispatches

12:20p ET Sunday, January 13, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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Largest Saudi bank urges government to cut dollar exposure

Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-01-12 12:58 Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
via Yahoo News
Saturday, January 12, 2008

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080112/tbs-gulf-currencies-saudi-955c2a1...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's largest state bank urged the government to reduce the kingdom's exposure to the dollar by investing more assets outside the United states and gradually changing the riyal's peg to the weak U.S. currency.