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Market is remonetizing gold, and GFMS is sore about it

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Investor Appetite Drives Gold to New Peak

By Chris Flood
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

LONDON -- Investors bought more gold than buyers of jewellery for the first time in three decades in 2009, highlighting the increasing impact of speculators on bullion prices.

Gabriel Sukenik: The Fed vs. the free market

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:22p ET Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gabriel Sukenik, a senior at the University of Rochester, has posted at YouTube a 7 1/2-minute video titled "The Fed vs. the Free Market" that includes an interview with your secretary/treasurer, who should have put on a jacket and tie and looked directly into the camera. You can find the video at YouTube here:

A debate on gold on CBC Radio's 'The Current'

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:13p ET Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: A global fiasco is brewing in Japan

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100002951/a-...

I have felt rather lonely after suggesting in my new year predictions that Japan is dangerously close to blowing up on its sovereign debts, with consequences that will be felt across the world.

Ted Butler: A milestone meeting

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:43p ET Monday, January 11, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

We need King World News because mainstream media fail

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4:30p ET Monday, January 11, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Crisis threatens to curb central banks

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By Jon Hilsenrath, Brian Blackstone, and Jaeyeon Woo
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, January 11, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870358570457465044136754428...

Politicians are taking bolder actions to influence monetary policy, signaling that the global financial crisis may end up reining in the independence of many central banks.

You gotta love Dave Morgan's taste in art and metal

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Monday, January 11, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Silver-Investor.com's David Morgan was interviewed about silver's prospects for four minutes today by TheStreet.com, and you've got to love his taste in art at his home office, as well as his favorite investment. Check what's behind him on the wall as you listen to his analysis here:

Fed presses appeal to block disclosure of bailout information

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By David Glovin
Bloomberg News
Monday, January 11, 2010

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4PnUdySIink&pos=7

NEW YORK -- The Federal Reserve will ask a U.S. appeals court to block a ruling that for the first time would force the central bank to reveal secret identities of financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest government bailout in U.S. history.

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