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M.A. Nystrom: McNosis, retiring boomers, and the silent crash
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-05 22:43 Section: Daily Dispatches10:35p ET Monday, February 5, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Over at Gold-Eagle M.A. Nystrom notes the increasingly frantic pace of American society and considers it a sign of the grinding down of the working class under forces nobody quite understands, forces that begin to be revealed in charts of the Dow Jones Industrial Index plotted in terms of ounces of gold and the CRB Commodity Index. Nystrom's essay is titled "McNosis, Retiring Boomers, and the Silent Crash," and you can find it here:
GATA sympathizers invited to gather in Dublin for drinks and a movie
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-05 22:17 Section: Daily Dispatches10:05p ET Monday, February 5, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's old friend and world traveler George Roche (he has attended GATA events in Vancouver, New Orleans, New York, and Geneva) reports that the film "Mine Your Own Business," which criticizes the so-called environmental movement and defends the extractive industries, will be shown at noon Sunday, February 18, at the International Dublin Film Festival. Roche will be in Ireland that week, plans to attend the festival and see the movie, and would like to get together then for coffee or a pint or two with any GATA sympathizers in the neighborhood. If you're interested, please e-mail Roche at GRoche8095@aol.com and he'll arrange something.
China's empire building in Africa means trouble for West
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-05 17:18 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ambrose Evans Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, February 5, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/05/ccview...
The new Cold War between China and the United States is taking shape, in Africa. Last week the US Defence Department quietly launched its first military command dedicated to black Africa and the Sahara -- until now a forgotten annex of the Pentagon's European and Mid East operations.
China drives copper prices -- and maybe manipulates them
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-05 17:06 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Joanne Lee-Young
Vancouver Sun
Monday, February 5, 2007
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=1d606af4-...
The copper bulls are duking it out with the copper bears. Each side says look at China. Both have British Columbia mining companies watching with interest.
The debate is on because copper has been slipsliding. Lately, it has been holding on at around $2.60 US for .45 kg (one pound), down some 35 percent from a May 2006 stratospheric high of just under $4 for .45 kg.
Peter Brimelow: Golden suspicions -- newsletters wonder about market manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2007-02-05 08:21 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, February 5, 2007
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={7B057E5F-A1BE-49ED-9ACF-01720C5F524A}&siteid=mktw
NEW YORK -- The past week was dramatic for gold. And the letters smell manipulation.
At Thursday's close, the yellow metal had risen to a high not seen since July last year (briefly). Then heavy selling in New York on Friday eradicated almost the entire week's gain.
Another yen carry trade -- this one boosts Brazilian economy
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-04 21:17 Section: Daily DispatchesReal Making Brazil a Haven for Capital
By Adriana Brasileiro and Alexander Ragir
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, February 5, 2007
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aduhExm26rvg
Joao de Matos, whose travel agency has been a fixture in Manhattan's Little Brazil neighborhood since the 1970s, stared at a chart showing a surge in Brazil's currency against the dollar and fretted about his business.
Syria turns to euro for half of currency reserves
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-04 20:35 Section: Daily DispatchesFrom Agence France Presse
via Yahoo News
Sunday, February 4, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070204/bs_afp/syriaeconomycurrency_0702042...
Syria has replaced the dollar with the euro for half of its foreign currency reserves as part of efforts to counter possible U.S. sanctions, Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri said.
"The Syrian pound is sheltered from crises because of its large foreign currency reserves and because the euro has replaced the dollar in the case of about half of this money," Otri said, quoted by the state news agency SANA.
Gene Arensberg's Got Gold Report: Commercials, ETF investors diverge sharply
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-04 12:03 Section: Daily DispatchesPositive Liquity Returns
to Gold and Silver ETFs
By Gene Arensberg
ResourceInvestor.com
Sunday, February 4, 2007
HOUSTON -- An interesting divergence is setting up in the primary indicators followed closely by this report. On the one hand, the large commercial COMEX traders are taking on short positions at an exaggerated pace like they think that the dollar price of gold is about to plunge. On the other, investors in gold and silver ETFs are buying more of the metal trading vehicles than selling. A lot more. ...
China spends $800 million to buy Zambia
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2007-02-04 11:57 Section: Daily DispatchesChinese President Announces
$800M Investment in Zambia
From German Press Agency
via MonstersAndCritics.com
Sunday, February 4, 2007
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1255422.php/...
LUSAKA, Zambia -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday announced an $800 million investment package in Zambia on the second day of a two-day visit to the southern African country where a Chinese rush on resources is the source of growing unease.
Tracking and trading market intervention is a growing industry
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2007-02-03 23:21 Section: Daily Dispatches11:18p ET Saturday, February 3, 2007
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
It's wonderful to see that surreptitious U.S. government intervention in the financial markets is now taken so much for granted that more people are building mechanisms for tracking and trading it. (GATA's consultant, Michael Bolser, may have been the first with his Interventional Analysis letter, www.interventionalanalysis.com.) The latest undertaking is that of Robert D. McHugh Jr., editor of the Financial Markets Forecast & Analysis letter, whose essay, "The Plunge Protection Team Risk Indicator -- A Rally Finder," can be found at Gold-Eagle here:
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