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Vast reserves of a declining currency are dangerous for Asian central banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar depreciates for third year;
deficit seen keeping downtrend intact in 2005

By Rachel Koning
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, December 31, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B90138A60%2DE45D%
2D41BC%2D8275%2D3992482B90EC%7D&siteid=mktw

CHICAGO -- The U.S. dollar suffered its third straight

Newmont seeks to prevent shareholder vote on environmental practices

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Harold James
The Australian, Sydney
Saturday, January 1, 2005

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11821419
%255E643,00.html

The People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan,
as well as other central banks in Asia, are in trouble.
They have accumulated vast foreign exchange
reserves, estimated at more than $US2 trillion

Gold ETF has strongest start of any ETF but does it really have the gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Kevin Plumberg
Reuters
Thursday, December 30, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=businessNews&storyID=7209753

NEW YORK -- The dollar dipped to an all-time low against
the euro on Thursday for the sixth consecutive session, as
traders took aim at technical targets in a thin market.

Many foreign exchange desks had skeleton crews, but

Richard Appel says 2005 will be the year of the junior mining stocks

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:19p ET Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment
strategist, John Embry, predicts a "spectacular"
move for gold in the new year, arguing that the
determinants of the gold price in the short term
will be the direction of the U.S. dollar, strong
physical demand, and the resolution of the
speculative position on the Comex. You can

Dollar dips to record low against euro

Section: Daily Dispatches

6p ET Thursday, December 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Kitco says gold and silver both closed 2004 up about
5 percent for the year. That compares to about 3
percent for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
makes us gold and silver bugs pretty smart. So why
do so many of us feel so stupid and rotten?

Probably because gold and silver mining shares,
as measured by the HUI index, were down 12 percent

James Turk: The impact of a declining dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:51p ET Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you'd like to read more about the defrauding of
the American public with phony inflation statistics,
read Richard Benson's essay, "Inflation
Disinformation," at GoldSeek.com here:

http://news.goldseek.com/SFG/1104335062.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

John Embry expects a ''spectacular'' move for gold in the new year

Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report and
consultant to GATA, examines "The Impact
of a Declining Dollar" in a new essay in
the "Founder's Commentary" box at the top
left of the GoldMoney home page here:

http://goldmoney.com

Richard Benson: Inflation Disinformation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Mark Tannenbaum and Jonas Bergman
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, December 27, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=a35q0IgJY7fg&refer=home

The dollar declined to weaker than $1.36 per euro for the
first time, reaching its seventh record low this month, on
speculation the United States and Europe will allow the

Join GATA at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference Jan. 23 and 24

Section: Daily Dispatches

Dollar near all-time low vs. euro

From Reuters
Sunday, December 26, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?
type=businessNews&storyID=7180723

TOKYO -- The dollar held just off a record low against
the euro on Monday, but downward pressure
remained strong after a euro-zone minister showed
little concern over the European currency's recent

Warren Buffett: Markets always defeat government intervention

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:09a ET Monday, December 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a reminder that GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
will be a speaker and GATA will have a booth at
the 2005 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference,
to be held at the Vancouver Convention and
Exhibition Centre on Sunday and Monday, January 23
and 24, and that we'll be joined by some of the
gold and silver world's favorite experts,

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