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Gold to become scarcer still, AngloGold Ashanti''s Godsell warns

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:26a ET Sunday, April 2, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, founder of GoldMoney, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and consultant
to GATA, reports more bull-market confirmations
for gold and silver. You can read his analysis
in the "Founder's Commentary" box at the top
left of the GoldMoney home page here:

http://goldmoney.com/

James Turk bids goodbye to M3 and the Fear Index

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Rebecca Bream
Financial Times, London
Sunday, April 2, 2006

Bobby Godsell, chief executive of AngloGold Ashanti, predicted that
worldwide gold production would stagnate, then fall in the coming
years as large deposits of the precious metal become scarce.

He said this would support the rally in the gold price, which last
week hit a 25-year high of $588 per ounce.

The South African company, the world's third biggest gold producer,

James Turk: More bull-market confirmations for gold and silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Islamic Republic News Agency
Friday, March 31, 2006

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0604017358084243.htm

TEHRAN -- An informed source in Central Bank of Iran on Friday
denied the news published in a Swiss daily on withdrawal of 250 tons
of Iran's gold reserves from that country's Credit Bank.

The Central Bank official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told

Iran denies withdrawing gold from Switzerland

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:29p ET Friday, March 31, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Grandich's investment letter for today is headlined
"Take No Prisoners" and, perhaps in that spirit, has
some imaginative things to say about GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy, as well as some quite sober things to say about
the precious metals and mining stocks. You can find the
Grandich Letter at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/Grandich/1143831318.php

No more European Central Bank gold sales for six months

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:10p ET Thursday, March 30, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler is surprised but not
disappointed that the exchange-traded fund for silver
has been approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. His new commentary is headlined "Signed,
Sealed, Delivered?" and you can find it at GoldSeek's
companion site, SilverSeek, here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1143734221.php

Grandich Letter: Take no prisoners

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Steve Whitehouse
AFX News
March 31, 2006

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/03/31/afx2636295.html

FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank said it has sold 57 tons of
gold as part of the 2004 central bank gold sales agreement.

But it said it does not plan any further gold sales in the next six
months.

Turk has his gold-silver chart; GATA has Dick Powell singing about it

Section: Daily Dispatches

Prestowitz Urges Koizumi
To Call for 'Plaza Accord II' at G-8

From Kyodo News Agency
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060328/kyodo/d8gki7284.html

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should take the lead at a
Group of Eight meeting in calling for a "Plaza Accord II," former
U.S. trade negotiator Clyde Prestowitz said Tuesday.

Eckart Woertz: Time for Gulf economies to increase gold reserves

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:47a ET Thursday, March 30, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report,
has recast his chart of the gold-silver price
ratio and concludes that "there is just too much
momentum underpinning the metals for them to stop
now."

Turk adds: "After all, what would you rather own?
Gold/silver or paper? Sound money or a rapidly

President''s new chief of staff wants Goldman Sachs CEO as Treasury secretary

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eckart Woertz
The Daily Star, Beirut
Thursday, March 30, 2006

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?
edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=23341

The prospect of selling oil for inflated dollars should send Middle
Eastern central banks to the logical hedge commodity: gold

There is no doubt that gold is regaining its luster as an asset

The strong-dollar policy turns up again

Section: Daily Dispatches

Chief of Staff Is Expected
to Shake Up 2 Key Teams

By Elisabeth Bumiller
The New York Times
Thursday, March 30, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/politics/30bush.html?
_r=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Joshua B. Bolten, the incoming White House
chief of staff, is expected to press President Bush to assemble new

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