Daily Dispatches

By The Mogambo Guru
(a.k.a. Richard Daughty)
DailyReckoning.com
Monday, November 29, 2004

Alert reader Jim E. sent me a New Yorker article by a
guy named James Surowiecki who has written an
interesting article: "Why Gold?" Jim thought the guy
was the "dumbest SOB that ever lived" and of course
I was excited to hear about a guy who was a bigger
and dumber SOB than me!

By Doug Noland
PrudentBear.com
Friday, November 26, 2004

http://www.prudentbear.com/creditbubblebulletin.asp

Dear Mr. Dollar:

I have for some time expounded your shortfalls and
frailties.And now, with your soundness and future
status having been elevated to the crucial issue in
global markets and economics, it is appropriate that

4p ET Sunday, November 28, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This essay by Dan Denning of DailyReckoning.com is
a few days old but still notable for adding to the
puzzlement of contrarians about the prevailing
opinion about gold. Is it that gold is explosive,
or that it is due for a sharp and relatively brief
decline before resuming a powerful rise?

Denning does seem to represent the prevailing

2:25p ET Saturday, November 27, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's New York Times story about the turmoil
in the currency markets, appended here, may be
most interesting for its last paragraph, which
asserts that the biggest growth in purchases of
U.S. Treasury securities is coming from
"Carribean banking centers." These Carribean
banks long have been suspected to be fronts