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Modern imperialism''s hidden faces: AngloGold, Barrick, and the BIS
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-02-20 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Reginald H. Howe
www.GoldenSextant.com
February 20, 2001
Shades of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit. At the Indaba
2001 African Mining Conference in Cape Town the other
day, Kelvin Williams of AngloGold, South Africa's
largest gold producer, used his turn at the podium to
take a gratuitous swipe at the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee: quot;Forget for the moment about the notion of a
conspiracy against gold, and worldwide plots between
Sean Corrigan essay on gold market stresses GATA
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-02-20 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Reginald H. Howe
www.GoldenSextant.com
February 20, 2001
Shades of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit. At the Indaba
2001 African Mining Conference in Cape Town the other
day, Kelvin Williams of AngloGold, South Africa's
largest gold producer, used his turn at the podium to
take a gratuitous swipe at the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee: quot;Forget for the moment about the notion of a
conspiracy against gold, and worldwide plots between
Sean Corrigan essay on gold market stresses GATA
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-02-20 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:16p ET Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Sean Corrigan of Capital Insight in Great
Britain has written an important essay
about the gold market in which GATA figures
prominently. Indeed, little of interest
happens in the gold market these days that
does NOT involve GATA. You can read
Corrigan's essay at www.Gold-Eagle.com here:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/corrigan022201.htmlhttp://www.g...
''Midas'' commentary for February 18, 2001
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-02-20 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:16p ET Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Sean Corrigan of Capital Insight in Great
Britain has written an important essay
about the gold market in which GATA figures
prominently. Indeed, little of interest
happens in the gold market these days that
does NOT involve GATA. You can read
Corrigan's essay at www.Gold-Eagle.com here:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/corrigan022201.htmlhttp://www.g...
U.S. commitment to strong dollar faces market test
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2001-02-18 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:15p ET Friday, February 16, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
You gotta check this out:
a href=http://www.gata.org/latest.htmlhttp://www.gata.org/latest.html/a
It's a photo of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
with the king of the Zulu tribe in South
Africa, a direct descendant of the famous
Zulu warrior Shaka, whose quot;enveloping hornquot;
strategy Murphy has put into effect at
Robert Chapman essay on gold price manipulation
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2001-02-18 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Gerard Baker and Ed Crooks
The Financial Times
February 18, 2001
Palermo, Italy -- World currency markets are set to
test on Monday the most emphatic attempt yet by Paul
O'Neill, the new U.S. treasury secretary, to
demonstrate the Bush administration's commitment to a
strong dollar.
Mr. O'Neill used the opportunity of the weekend's
meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors
Gold Fields closes hedge positions
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
February 15, 2001
There is no way I can do justice to my trip to South
Africa, but I will cover it here as best I can. While
it would have been better to write details down as the
days went by, there was little time to do so. It is
from fond memory alone that I now relate my hectic
adventure.
The South African countryside is very beautiful and I
More anti-manipulation hints from new treasury secretary
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesA press release from the company.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb. 16 (PRNewswire) -- Gold Fields
Limited today announced that it had closed out the last of its
remaining hedge positions.
Chris Thompson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gold Fields
said: quot;Gold Fields is now totally unhedged, which is an affirmation
of our policy in this regard.quot;
Gold Fields bought back 160,000 ounces of gold forward sales at an
Attack on South African currency gets recognition
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
February 16, 2001
Below is a Reuters story from a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zietung
interview with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
It seems clear to me that a change is in the wind when it comes to
U.S. government interference in the world gold market.
Secretary O'Neill knows what GATA knows. Through sources GATA
also
The King and I -- as in Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1:16p ET Friday, February 16, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A few weeks ago GATA Chairman Bill Murphy told you how the big
bullion banks, short irrecoverable amounts of gold, seemed to be
speculating against the South African rand, as they seemed to have
done against the Australian dollar, to drive down the local currency
and induce gold mining companies to sell more gold forward.
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