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Citigroup, Riggs Bank helped Chile''s former dictator launder money abroad

Section: Daily Dispatches

Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Named in Parmalat Probe

By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Giada Zampano
Reuters
Thursday, March 17, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7936509

MILAN -- Prosecutors investigating the Parmalat scandal have accused
four foreign banks and an Italian asset management firm of helping

Litigation costs may devastate gold rigger Morgan Chase''s earnings this year

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Rowley
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000086&sid=aWkzQ4eLXp74&refer=latin_america

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his family over 25
years stashed at least $15 million in more than 125 hidden accounts
at Citigroup Inc. and other banks, a U.S. Senate report said.

Ted Butler: Criminal intent

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050315/15/3r9k0.html

HONG KONG --The future path of the U.S. dollar is likely to depend
much less on the actions of Asian central banks than on U.S.
domestic policies, the economist Joseph Stiglitz said Tuesday.

Indications that Asian central banks are reducing their large

Judge tells Barrick and Morgan to discuss settlement with Blanchard

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:23p ET Monday, March 14, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to GATA supporter Mark Webber for transcribing
the interview with Sprott Asset Management's John
Embry on ROB-TV's "Night Cap" program in Canada last
Thursday, March 10. The transcript, with a little
editing, is appended here.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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James Turk elaborates on the growing discrepancy between the CRB Index and gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Bloomberg News Service
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/200503
15/RTICKER15-5/TPBusiness/International

A judge ordered Barrick Gold Corp. and J.P. Morgan
Chase & Co. to try to settle a 2-year-old lawsuit filed
by coin dealer Blanchard & Co. to avoid a 10-day trial

Settlement conference in Blanchard suit is ordinary procedure, Barrick says

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:16p ET Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, concurring
with GATA's findings, has elaborated in his newsletter on
the growing discrepancy between the Commodities Research
Bureau price index and the price of gold. His analysis has
been reprinted at KitcoCasey and you can find it here:

World Gold Council conspires to induce Indians to trade their gold for paper

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7911750

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Barrick Gold Corp. confirmed reports
on Tuesday that a U.S. judge had ordered it and coin dealer
Blanchard and Co. to try to settle an acrimonious antitrust suit,

U.S. policy, not Asian central banks, will drive dollar, economist says

Section: Daily Dispatches

India Hopes to Wean Citizens From Gold

By Anand Giridharadas
International Herald Tribune, Paris
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?
file=/articles/2005/03/15/news/gold.html

MUMBAI, India -- The Indian government is placing a long-range wager
that an increasingly prosperous population can be coaxed to part --

Peter Brimelow: Will gold sector miss the party?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:21p ET Sunday, March 13, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story appended here affirms the progress
being made in Mexico by GATA supporter Hugo Salinas
Price toward remonetizing silver, of which Mexico is
the world's largest producer. Price will address
GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon,
in August.

You may particularly enjoy the comment quoted from
an average "woman in the street" at the bottom of the

America again tells the world: Dollar is our currency but your problem

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, March 14, 2005

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B8EFA20EF%2DC6E9%
2D46EF%2DA1B3%2DB57091817C18%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

NEW YORK -- Last week the Commodity Research Bureau Index (CRB)
surged to levels not seen since the alarming weeks of late 1980. The

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