Daily Dispatches

7:52p ET Thursday, February 17, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Holy golden cow! GATA consultant James Turk, founder
of GoldMoney and editor of the Freemarket Gold &
Money Report, has just gotten video-interviewed by
CBSMarketWatch about his new book, "The Coming
Collapse of the Dollar," and his views on gold's
prospects. At this hour you can find the interview
on the right side of the CBSMarketWatch home page

8:08p ET Thursday, February 17, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Greta Steyn of MiningMX analyzes the hubbub over
proposals that the International Monetary Fund
should sell gold to help poor countries and notes
that similar proposals in 1999 were not actually
defeated, as is commonly assumed. To the contrary,
she writes, a couple of big IMF gold sales were
made in 1999 but were structured to be only

By Theodore Butler
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
www.InvestmentRarities.com

Because silver is such a fascinating topic, there is a strong force
that pulls us to focus on it on a daily basis. This force is normal
with any issue we find interesting. Fortunately, this scrutiny can be
profitable. I know many people who have made many thousands and even
millions of dollars on the price moves in silver over the past year

By The Associated Press
Monday, February 14, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050214/france_citigroup_4.html

PARIS -- France's treasury penalized Citigroup Inc. on Monday,
giving it a lower ranking on a list used to award government
business, and said the bank's controversial 12.4 billion euro ($16
billion) bond trade tarnished European markets.