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Please publicize Salinas Price''s report on Mexico''s remonetization of silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p ET Friday, December 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price -- businessman, philosopher,
and Mexican patriot -- describes in the essay
appended here the great progress being made in
Mexico toward the remonetization of silver. He
argues for what GATA has been arguing for
-- giving people a choice of money and making
money compete for people rather than the
other way round. That will be, as Salinas Price

Two longtime metals traders see Comex becoming a real market for delivering gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stephen Labaton
The New York Times
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/business/16fannie.html

WASHINGTON -- The staff of the Securities and Exchange
Commission has ordered Fannie Mae, the nation's largest
buyer of mortgages, to restate its earnings over the last
four years after concluding that it had violated accounting

Foreign investment in U.S. declines; renewed focus in dollar''s weaknesses

Section: Daily Dispatches

By AFX News
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://www.fxstreet.com/nou/noticies/afx/noticia.asp?
pv_noticia=1103076985-9e32d306-02461

BEIJING -- China is seeing a gold-buying surge as a
hedge against the weakening dollar and negative real
interest rates, the South China Morning Post
reported, citing figures from the China Gold Society

Bob Bishop has antidote to gold gloom, and Chip Hanlon examines the ETF

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Blackden and Joshua Krongold
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000103&sid=a5pZjdNjHDE8&refer=news_index

The dollar fell the most in almost a month against the
yen and dropped versus the euro on a report showing
purchases of securities in the U.S. increased in

Resource Investor takes another look at South African junior miner AfLease

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A couple more things worth checking tonight that
you might not find in your ordinary Internet
ramble....

* Bob Bishop of Gold Mining Stock Report has
a wonderful antidote to the gloom in the gold world,
noting that the weakness in gold shares lately is
very likely tax-loss selling that will pass. You can
find Bishop's commentary at GoldColony here:

Fannie Mae broke accounting rules; firm''s capital position is now in jeopardy

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:23p ET Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood has updated the
situation with South African junior miner
Afrikander Lease, a major supporter of GATA,
and concludes that the company's gold and
uranium assets, now priced at 30 cents per
share, may be worth more than $10. This is
neither an offer to buy nor to sell -- just
an offer to dream! You can find Wood's report

Ted Butler: Taking care of business

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:05p ET Sunday, December 12, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant
to GATA, writes in new commentary that the
U.S. dollar has ended its "waterfall" decline
for the moment but that gold is beginning to
rise in other currencies. You can find Turk's
analysis in the "Founder's Commentary" box at

China sees gold-buying surge to hedge against declining dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
December 14, 2004

www.InvestmentRarities.com

I'm keeping this week's comments brief. In last week's
article, even though I wrote that I had the feeling that
we could have a real "thumper" to the downside,
actually seeing it immediately occur was somewhat
unnerving. That said, while timing is akin to luck, I hope
readers understand that the reason for the dramatic

James Turk: An Open Letter to the Bullion Desk

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:30p ET Saturday, December 11, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a report from the heart of the developing
world -- Nigeria -- that is encouraging and
touching. Encouraging, because it shows that
the government is just beginning to sense how
the country is being ripped off by the imperial
currency, the dollar; touching, because it shows
the struggle of people who are trying to make

James Turk: Dollar ends ''waterfall'' decline but gold rises in other currencies

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:06p ET Sunday, December 12, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report and founder
of GoldMoney, has written "An Open Letter to
the Bullion Desk," correcting the misinformation
the Bullion Desk posted last week about the
World Gold Council's new exchange-traded
bullion fund, misinformation from which the
Bullion Desk ran away after it was challenged.

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