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Bank for International Settlements confesses to gold price suppression scheme

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:32p ET Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's the latest anti-gold propaganda, a story from
the London Times reporting that child pornography
is increasingly being purchased by people using
electronic gold payment systems.

The manager of an Internet watch group says of the
use ofe-gold systems by child porn buyers: "It is
not foolproof. But it does make it harder for us to

Central banks must manage ''dollar overhang'' together, money manager says

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:28a ET Thursday, March 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Alan Greenspan confessed to the gold price suppression
scheme while he was chairman of the Federal Reserve.
He gave his famous testimony to Congress on July 24,
1998: "Central banks stand ready to lease gold in
increasing quantities should the price rise."

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/1998/19980724.htm

ROB-TV interviews Peter Grandich about GATA and mining stocks

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:13p ET Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones reports tonight about
a silver exchange-traded fund starting up in London that
may or may not have silver or paper contracts to receive
silver and whose silver or silver contracts may or may
not have any particular relation to the money invested in
the fund. But "investors won't have to worry," the fund's

Gold may be dangerous but it is innocent of all charges

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30a ET Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Grandich of the Grandich Letter was interviewed
for an hour Wednesday by Jim O'Connell on "Market
Call" on Canada's ROB-TV and commented at length
(and favorably so) about GATA. The service ROB-TV
and O'Connell provide Canada and the world in this
respect is just amazing. Grandich also made many
interesting comments about gold and silver mining

Eric Fry: Let the hoarding begin

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Doug Alexander
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, March 6, 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aB30yaL0GkGU

TORONTO -- Gold prices may reach $2,000 an ounce by 2010 on demand
for an alternative to currencies, U.S. Gold Corp. Chief Executive
Officer Robert McEwen said.

"You have much more money than there is gold, and as people see

New silver ETF may or may not have silver or contracts in any particular amount

Section: Daily Dispatches

Let the Hoarding Begin

By Eric J. Fry
The Rude Awakening
Tuesday, March 7, 2006

http://www.the-rude-awakening.com/RAissues/2006/march/RA030706.html

If you buy an ounce of gold today, you might regret it
tomorrow. But if you don't buy an ounce of gold today, you
might regret it two years from now ... if not sooner.

James Turk: So far, only half a breakout

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:53a ET Monday, March 6, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney's James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold amp; Money Report and consultant to GATA, has
gotten out his gold and silver charts again to write
quot;So Far, Only Half a Breakout.quot; He's analyzing the
gold/silver price ratio again, and while he finds
only silver clearly breaking out, he senses that
gold may follow this week. You can find Turk's

Dodging debt limit, Treasury borrows $15 billion from currency-rigging fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

Treasury Department Moves to Avoid Debt Limit

By Martin Crutsinger
The Associated Press
via The Washington Post
Monday, March 6, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary John Snow notified Congress on
Monday that the administration has now taken quot;all prudent and legal

Mexican Congress'' book on remonetizing silver cites GATA''s endorsement

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:08p ET Monday, March 6, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA has received an encouraging dispatch
from our dear and heroic friend Hugo Salinas
Price, president of the Mexican Civic
Association for Silver and leader of the
silver cause in Mexico. Or maybe it would be
better to describe him as leader of the
Mexican independence movement. His dispatch
is appended.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

London silver-tracking fund will be just paper with no metal behind it

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Beijing Time
via China View and Xinhuanet
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/01/content_4241902.htm

BEIJING -- TheBank of China, the country's biggest foreign currency
lender, plans to allow investors to buy and sell gold using their US
dollar accounts in a move to boost sales of the precious metal.

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