Daily Dispatches

12:16a ET Thursday, March 5, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for Wednesday at LeMetropoleCafe.com, headlined "The Silly People, Ominous GE and JPM, CIA Snoop Ted Truman, and Blasts from the Past," has been posted in the clear at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1236240000.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

9p ET Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Strangely, TheStreet.com today noted complaints about manipulation of the silver market. It happened in a rather flippant report by TheStreet.com's Debra Borchardt. But at least they spelled the metal's name right. You can view the report here under the headline "$35 Silver in 2 Years":

11:18a ET Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Silver market analyst Ted Butler reports today on the latest commitment-of-traders (COT) data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and says the concentration in the short position in silver is now the greatest concentration in any U.S. commodity market, long or short, in history.

4:45p ET Monday, March 2, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Stockhouse's Thom Calandra is working hard at the PDAC convention in Toronto, filing a second report today, this one evaluating national mining environments. Calandra's report is headlined "Papua, Zambia, Tanzania, Quebec?" and you can find it at Stockhouse here: