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The Return of the Gold Bugs:

The run-up in prices above $500 an ounce
seems driven by investors and speculators.
Take your price of which anxiety is
likely motivating them.

By Robert J. Samuelson
Newsweek
December 12, 2005

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10313624/site/newsweek/

The price of gold passed $500 an ounce last week, its highest level

Dollar''s rise aided by OPEC holdings

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:16p ET Sunday, December 4, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Ed Bugos, editor of The Goldenbar Report, has written
an incisive and profound essay about the objectives
and accomplishments of the Federal Reserve System
and Alan Greenspan's tenure as chairman there. It's
titled "The Bell Tolls for Gold US$600," and it argues
that the Fed, created to avert the catastrophic
deflations that had regularly occurred throughout

When will Asian central banks buy into gold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Steve Johnson
Financial Times, London
Sunday, December 4, 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9c6d7db6-64fe-11da-8cff-0000779e2340.html

Middle Eastern oil exporters have rediscovered their love of the US
dollar in the past year, helping fuel the currency's rally to two-
year highs against the euro, yen and sterling.

Peter Brimelow: Gold enters new phase

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Harlan Levy
Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=15671763&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=8

In a little-noticed decision a few weeks ago, the Federal Reserve
Board said it would stop publishing its weekly M3 money supply number

Resource Investor interviews Sprott Asset Management''s John Embry

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Thursday, December 1, 2005

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B4966E5D6%2D7405%
2D4599%2D8AD9%2D4E05F8A90FDF%7D&siteid=mktw

NEW YORK -- Gold hits the $500 gong -- but is that it? The gold bugs
remain calmly confident, long-term.

First, a word from our proprietary source. Last night's reading from

Resource Investor interviews GATA partisans James Turk and Peter Grandich

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:14a ET Friday, December 2, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

For a bedtime story that may leave visions of golden
sugarplums dancing in your head, read the interview
with Sprott Asset Management's chief investment
strategist, John Embry, done by David J. DesLauriers
at Resource Investor:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=15084

Reuters quotes analyst who calls gold ''unstoppable''

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:23a ET Friday, December 2, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones marks gold's penetration
of the $500 level by interviewing, of all, people, two
GATA partisans, James Turk of GoldMoney and Peter Grandich
of The Grandich Letter. You can find Nones' report here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=15090

Blanchard statement on Barrick settlement cites end of hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:42p ET Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price, president of the Mexican Civic
Association for Silver, has sent us a report on the
efforts made by a Mexican delegation to persuade
the Latin American Parliament, meeting in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, to support issuance of a 1-ounce silver
coin as undenominated money throughout Latin
America. The report is tremendously encouraging

Peter Grandich plans investment seminar on eve of Vancouver conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:11a ET Thursday, December 1, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Blanchard & Co., the New Orleans coin and bullion
dealer, issued on Wednesday a statement about the
settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against Barrick
Gold, which had been filed in U.S. District Court
in New Orleans, and the settlement of Barrick's
libel countersuit against Blanchard, which had
been filed in Canada.

Buy ''Eye of the Pyramid'' today and you''ll be helping GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:31a ET Thursday, December 1, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Metals market analyst Peter Grandich, who has
endorsed GATA's work and defended GATA in his
newsletter and on Report on Business Television
in Canada, will indeed hold an investment
seminar in Vancouver on Saturday afternoon,
January 21, the day before the Vancouver
Resource Investment Conference.

Admission will be a check for C$50 payable to

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