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Ted Butler: Looking back, to see ahead

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:50a ET Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Central banking's main purpose now is market suppression

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:45a ET Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Financial Times story, appended here, about the eurozone's alarm at its strengthening currency suggests a few things:

1) Worldwide currency devaluations are ahead -- competitive devaluations if cooperative ones cannot be arranged.

Greg Peel: Citigroup report reignites gold manipulation debate

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:25a ET Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Aussie dollar seen equalling U.S. dollar next year

Section: Daily Dispatches

By David McIntyre
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ar4B13PRXC7A

SYDNEY -- The Australian dollar will trade equal with the U.S. currency by the end of 2008 as the central bank raises interest rates to control inflation, according to Stephen Koukoulas, global strategist at TD Securities Ltd.

Calls grow for ECB intervention to stop rise of euro

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Garnham
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7ab931c-7050-11dc-a6d1-0000779fd2ac.html

The recent rise of the euro has sparked a chorus of disapproval from the region's exporters and politicians, but analysts say it may now be approaching levels that could even push central banks into action.

Gold market manipulation noted in Russian press

Section: Daily Dispatches

Soaring Gold Makes Mining Stocks a Risk

By Catrina Stewart
St. Petersburg Times, Russia
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=23163

MOSCOW -- Gold prices rocketed to a 28-year high last week as Severstal tightened the screws in its battle for gold miner Celtic Resources.

Peter Brimelow: Is gold melting up?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Monday, October 1, 2007

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gold-melting-up/story.aspx?guid=%7...

NEW YORK -- Could gold be "melting up"? Some letters think so.

Some Northern Rock customers switched into gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Curran
The Sunday Business Post, Dublin
Sunday, September 30, 2007

http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=MARKETS-qqqm=nav-qqqi...

Some beleaguered Northern Rock customers who withdrew their savings used the money to buy gold in search of old-fashioned stability.

British banks gorge on European Central Bank's cheap credit

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, October 1, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/01/bcnecb...

British lenders are shunning the Bank of England and turning instead to the European Central Bank on a massive scale, taking advantage of much lower interest rates and guaranteed anonymity to weather the credit crunch.

Al Korelin: Why invest in gold if the price is manipulated?

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:45p ET Monday, October 1, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA today received the formal endorsement of Al Korelin of the Korelin Economics Report, whose new essay, "Why Bother Investing in Gold if the Price Is Manipulated?," can be found at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/korelin/oct012007.html

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