Daily Dispatches

1:16a ET Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch appended here about
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm may explain a lot about
why Wall Street and its investment banks got
everything they wanted from the Senate
Banking Committee when Gramm was its
chairman. Lately he has been the committee's
ranking Republican minority member.

No doubt Senator Gramm will keep voting

1:16a ET Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch appended here about
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm may explain a lot about
why Wall Street and its investment banks got
everything they wanted from the Senate
Banking Committee when Gramm was its
chairman. Lately he has been the committee's
ranking Republican minority member.

No doubt Senator Gramm will keep voting

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Wall Street is still advising
investors to buy shares of ailing companies even as
they file for bankruptcy, according to a study
released on Monday.

Weiss Ratings, a market research firm, said it found
that 46 of the 62 brokerage houses covering companies
that filed for bankruptcy between May 1 and Aug. 31
continued to recommend buying or holding those
shares as the companies filed Chapter 11.

J.P. Morgan set to fire 4,000 bankers: report

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/021004/financial_jpmorgan_2.html

NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) -- J.P. Morgan
Chase & Co. the second-largest U.S. banking
company, is set to fire 4,000 of its 20,000
investment bankers later this month,
according to a published report.

The cuts will be made across the bank

2a ET Thursday, October 3, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Plenty more coverage of the Denver gold conference
at Mineweb, including long interviews with four
important mining company executives: Anglogold's
Bobby Godsell, Barrick's Randall Oliphant, Golden
Star's Peter Bradford, and Gold Fields' Ian
Cockerill. You can find it all here:

http://www.theminingweb.com/mineweb.htm

8p ET Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's some great coverage of the Denver gold
conference at TheMiningWeb.com, now
Mineweb.com. You can find it here:

http://www.theminingweb.com/mineweb.htm

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

1:10p ET Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friends at the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education Inc. have scheduled
their fall meeting for Wednesday, November 20,
at the Union Club in New York City. This
meeting always has a strong focus on gold
and is a great meal besides. Below is the
meeting's call. GATA will be represented at
the meeting and we hope to see some of our

OLD, NEW MINERS SEEK GOLDEN SNITCH

By Thom Calandra, Editor
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Tuesday, October 1, 2002

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?
column=Thom+Calandra's+StockWatch&dist=nwtwatch&siteid=mktw

DENVER -- Precious metal miners are chasing the golden
snitch: the perfect mine at the perfect price.

Trouble is, few of the executives at the Mining Investment

9:24p ET Monday, September 30, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks, congratulations, and a hearty "watch
your back!" to the Miami Herald's business
reporter, Jane Bussey, whose story about "Mr.
Gold," GATA's friend Jim Sinclair, chairman
of Tan Range Exploration, was published in
the Herald's Sunday editions. This is Bussey's
second major story about gold in four months.

Gold bugs revel in slide of fly-in-ointment Morgan

By Fabrice Taylor
Toronto Globe and Mail
Tuesday, October 1, 2002

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021001/
RVOXX/Business/business/businessMoneyMarketsHeadline_temp/6/6/32/

Nothing excites the gold bugs more than to watch J.P.