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Finance ministers far apart on debt relief; China won''t say when yuan will float

Section: Daily Dispatches

"Conspiracies rarely exist."
-- Dennis Gartman in The Gartman Letter, September 14, 2004

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Bayer Pleads Guilty
in Price-Fixing Conspiracy,
Will Pay $33 Million Fine

U.S. Department of Justice Statement
Thursday, September 30, 2004

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/September/04_at_661.htm

WASHINGTON -- Bayer Corp., the Pittsburgh subsidiary

Barron''s interviews James Turk on the coming collapse of the dollar

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Finance meetings focusing on China,
poor nation debt, Iraq, and oil

By Martin Crutsinger
Associated Press
Saturday, October 2, 2004

WASHINGTON -- The world's major economic powers
were far apart Saturday on agreeing how to provide
debt relief for Iraq and the poorest nations, as
finance officials began broader discussions about
the global economy.

Treasury Secretary John Snow and Federal Reserve

Jim Puplava''s ''Financial Sense Newshour'' interviews GATA''s Mike Bolser

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The Buck Drops Here:
A Longtime Gold Bull Explains
Why He Thinks a Dollar Collapse is Inevitable

By Sandra Ward
Barron's
Monday, October 4, 2004

We've found it worthwhile the last two years to pay
a call to one of our favorite authorities on the yellow
metal: James Turk, publisher of the Freemarket Gold
& Money Report and founder of Goldmoney.com, a
company that facilitates cross-border transactions

IMF fails to devise debt relief for poor countries

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:36p ET Saturday, October 2, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jim Puplava, proprietor of FinancialSense.com, has
just interviewed GATA board member Michael
Bolser about technical analysis in manipulated
markets -- that is, markets for what Bolser calls
strategic commodities, particularly gold and oil.
(Bolser expects the U.S. government to ambush
gold next week.)

You can listen to the interview on the "Financial

Nothing comes of proposal to use gold to relieve poor nations'' debt

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By Lesley Wroughton and Sumeet Desai
Reuters
Saturday, October 2, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6396321

WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund's
top policy-making group on Saturday failed to close
divisions over debt relief for the world's poorest
countries.

Friends and family in Connecticut gratefully recall Barbara Sinclair

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:58a ET Thursday, September 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney.com, editor
of The Free Market Gold & Money Report, and
consultant to GATA, has a few comments on the
eve of the finance ministers' conference in
Washington. Turk argues that whatever the
finance ministers do, the profound trends in
the markets are clear and established and are
not likely to change or be changed.

Newmont''s Lassonde bullish, AngloGold''s Williams cautious on gold''s direction

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:15p ET Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our colleague James E. Sinclair, chairman and
CEO of Tan Range Exploration and proprietor of
JSMineset.com, announced at his Internet site
today the death of his wife, Barbara, in an auto
accident in India this week.

Perhaps no one has done more for the gold cause
over many years than Jim, who has freely shared
his market expertise and kept up our side's

James Turk: Finance ministers won''t be changing market trends

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Mining executives disagree on state of gold market

By Steve James
Reuters
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6371155

DENVER -- Senior executives of the world's top two
gold producers disagreed on Wednesday over the
state of the market for the precious metal, often

Invest so that you''re insulated against a rapidly depreciating currency

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Goldcorp CEO McEwen: Gold To Hit $850 An Ounce

By Heather Draper
Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

DENVER -- One of the gold industry's biggest bulls
believes gold prices will hit at least $850 a troy
ounce within the next few years.

Goldcorp Inc. Chief Executive Rob McEwen said
"gold is money" and warned that the ballooning U.S.
budget deficit and inflated real-estate market will

Bond manager Bill Gross joins the conspiratorial kooks

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12:45a ET Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The wonderful essay below by Karim Rahemtulla,
written for DailyReckoning.com, makes reference
to last year's New Orleans Investment Conference
and gives you an idea of the profitable investment
ideas that came out of it -- and will come out of
this year's conference, to be held from Wednesday,
November 10, through Sunday, November 14.

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