By Peter Brimelow
MarketWatch.com
Sunday, January 4, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gold-glitters-some-radical-bugs/st...

NEW YORK -- The gold bugs are gathering. But, oddly, some more radical ones are currently more cautious.

By Bart Chilton
Providence (Rhode Island) Journal
Thursday, January 1, 2008

http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_chilton1_01-01-09_5...

And while the FT's at it, they might review the Barrick/Blanchard lawsuit.

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Gold Is Selling at All-Time Highs

A Letter to the Editor
Financial Times, London
Saturday, January 3, 2008

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c52952b0-d937-11dd-ab5f-000077b07658.html?ncli...

Fed Has Abandoned Monetary Policy, Critic Says

By Alister Bull
Reuters
Saturday, January 3, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE50306H20090104

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Reserve has embarked on a campaign of unsupervised industrial policy to end the country's financial crisis, a move that could undermine its independence, a former top U.S. official said on Saturday.

By Ros Krasny
Reuters
Saturday, January 3, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE5021V320090104

SAN FRANCISCO -- A grim economic outlook highlights the need for the Federal Reserve to step up quantitative measures to boost growth, with official interest rates already effectively at zero, Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, said on Saturday.

Savers Facing Accounts with No Interest

By Edmund Conway and Myra Butterworth
The Telegraph, London
Friday, January 2, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/savings/4077360/Saver...