An interesting, if incomplete, chart on the relationship between major hedge funds, journalists, and some pols. Please note that the Jim Chanos -Bethany McLean connection (from Enron) isn’t included.

Chanos is the same short-seller who’s recent comments (that China’s growth was exaggerated) seem to have made the risk currencies give back some of their gains and gold take a slight breather…at least for the moment.  (At least, that’s my insight into it).

So who’s short and who’s long gold and which journalists are in which pockets? Take your pick because that’s probably got everything to do with the various tidbits of news that get floated in the media and then disappear…

Welcome to the free and independent media of the free and independent, liberty-loving, morally superior, culturally advanced, genetically gifted wonder world of the “international community” of nations, aka, crap-shoot-cum-criminal syndicate.