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Growing controversy over gold backwardation

Section: Daily Dispatches

3p ET Wednesday, December 20, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If your eyes haven't rolled back in your head from the growing controversy about gold backwardation, Antal Fekete gets even more apocalyptic about it in a new essay at GoldSeek, "There Is No Fever Like Gold Fever," which you can find here:

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1228935840.php

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Commodity crash tests faith in supercycle

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/370266...

Rio Tinto gambled its future by contracting debt on a grand scale to fund its heady expansion near the top of the commodity bubble.

GMAC bank bid failing, bankruptcy may be next

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By David Mildenberg and Caroline Salas
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOYi3RTRwuuQ&refer=home

NEW YORK -- GMAC LLC, the auto and home lender seeking federal aid, hasn't obtained enough capital to become a bank holding company and may abandon the effort, casting new doubt on the firm's ability to survive.

Helicopter money is on the way in Britain

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UK May Expand Toolkit to Halt Recession Slide

By Gonzalo Vina
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZ5RLad_FpyM&refer=home

Cash soon to be trash as money-market yields go negative

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Money-Market Yields Seen Falling to Less Than Zero

By Christopher Condon
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axHG.5Dvl3P4&refer=home

ScotiaMocatta acknowledges gold carry trade, sees it ending

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:08a ET Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Fed Considers Debt Sales of Its Own

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By Jon Hilsenrath and Damian Paletta
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122888021757894023.html

The Federal Reserve is considering issuing its own debt for the first time, a move that would give the central bank additional flexibility as it tries to stabilize rocky financial markets.

Interest on T-bills hits zero

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Madlen Read and Martin Crutsinger
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_treasurys

NEW YORK -- Investors are so nervous that they're willing to accept the same return from government debt that they'd get from burying money in a coffee can — zero.

Gold backwardation examined on Canada's Business News Network

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:10a ET Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

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