Daily Dispatches

6p ET Friday, April 27, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's Toronto Globe and Mail published a wonderful profile of Canadian fund manager and GATA supporter Eric Sprott. The profile mentions the gold-price suppression scheme, and of course Sprott Asset Management was publisher of the groundbreaking study of the manipulation of the gold market, "Not Free, Not Fair."

2:16a ET Thursday, April 26, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friend M.F. raises an issue that may be worth trying to answer in public:

Russia to Invest Oil Revenue in Shares

By Neil Buckley
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, April 14, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7a553420-f289-11db-a454-000b5df10621.html

MOSCOW -- Billions of Russian petrodollars are set to be invested in shares of international companies for the first time, boosting Russia's presence in financial markets.

By Wang Min and Zheng Jin
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

SHANGHAI, China -- China should "appropriately" increase its gold reserves and buy strategic resources such as oil and metals in order to broaden the investment channels for its huge foreign-exchange reserves, said People's Bank of China Vice Governor Xiang Junbo.