Gold market timers are turning bullish

12:50p ET Sunday, March 10, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The annual spring meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education Inc. will be held in New York on
Wednesday, April 3, and feature a presentation by GATA's
consultant James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold and
Money Report and founder of Goldmoney.com.

Turk's topic will be: quot;Opening the U.S. Treasury Books:
Where's the Gold?quot;

The meeting's theme will be quot;Roiled Currencies, Banking,
and the Books of 2002 -- Consequences for the Markets.quot;
Its other distinguished speakers will include:

* R. Christoper Whalen, senior vice president of Detwiler
amp; Co. and a contributor to Barron's.

* Dr. Walter Molano, partner and head of economic
research for BCP Securities.

* Dr. Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, president of the Atlas
Economic Research Foundation.

* Dr. Walker F. Todd, former counsel to the Federal
Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

* Dr. Bernd Fischer, an economics official for the
German embassy in Washington.

* Dr. Leonard Liggio, executive vice president of the
Atlas Economic Research Foundation and a law professor.

* Richard L. Hanley, general partner of Hambletonian
Partners LP.

* Dr. Abraham L. Briloff of A.J. and L.A. Briloff, CPAs.

The CMRE's meeting will be held, as usual, at the lovely
Union Club at 101 East 69th St., New York. Cocktails
will be served at 5 p.m. The first program will begin at
5:30. Dinner will be served from 6:45 from 7:45, and then
the second program will begin.

Admission and dinner cost $125. To register, please send
your name, address, telephone number, facsimile machine
number, e-mail address, and check to:

Elizabeth Currier, President
Committee for Monetary Research and Education Inc.
10004 Greenwood Court
Charlotte, North Carolina 28215
USA

You can reach Elizabeth by phone at 704-598-3717, by
fax at 704-599-7036, and by e-mail at
CMRE@worldnet.att.net.

This meeting will be a great chance to hear and meet James
Turk. I'm planning to attend and thank GATA's friends who show
up. It's always a great program and a great dinner with a gold
orientation, so please consider it.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer