Daily Dispatches

5:18p ET Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler notes a change in
the behavior of the big shorts on the commodities
exchange. His new commentary is aptly titled "A
Cornered Rat" and you can find it at GoldSeek's
companion site, SilverSeek, here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1145390969.php

Lone Chilean Prospector Fights Giant
for $10 billion Andean Gold Mine

Barrick paid just 10.89 to Rodolfo Villar for land around its
massive gold find. But a court could make this a bad deal for the
Canadians

By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
The Independent, London
Sunday, April 16, 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article357893.ece

U.K. Sets Fine for Deutsche Bank

By Alistair MacDonald
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

LONDON -- Deutsche Bank AG was fined 6.4 million ($11.1 million) by
Britain's markets regulator for misleading investors after its
proprietary-trading operations boosted two stock sales being handled
by the big German bank.

The fine, the third-largest ever levied by the Financial Services

8:30p ET Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Phillip Barton, a pension fund trustee in Australia,
has put together a compelling speculation on the
future of the U.S. dollar and gold, "The Fundamental
Difference."

Barton writes:

"What the Fed does now with interest rates is of no
real consequence except perhaps in affecting the
chronology of the impending crisis. In any case, long-