Daily Dispatches

3p ET Monday, October 13, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Silver market analyst Ted Butler's new commentary, "The Masters of Destruction," analyzes the most recent takedown in silver and the covering of short positions by the market manipulators. You can find it at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1223916524.php

11:41a ET Monday, October 13, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA is mentioned today in commentary in the South African business newspaper Business Day. It's in an essay written by Jean Temkin, it's headlined "Gold Will Thrive on Dollar Flight," and you can find it here:

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A862031

By The Associated Press
via MSNBC.com
Sunday, October 12, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27150961/

NEW YORK -- A watched clock never moves -- unless it's the National Debt Clock.

In fact, the digital counter has been moving so much that it recently ran out of digits to display the ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, as of Saturday afternoon.

6:20p ET Sunday, October 12, 2008

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his "Got Gold Report" at Resource Investor tonight, Gene Arensberg reflects on the disparity between the paper and physical gold markets and the rise in holdings of the gold exchange-traded fund. Arensberg's report is headlined "Market Mayhem Continues, Silver Crushed," and you can find it here: