Daily Dispatches

By Simon Kennedy and Matthew Benjamin
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, February 19, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGMYY0WhtTtg&refer=e...

When politicians tried to pressure former European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, he used to say: "I hear, but I do not listen." These days, a growing number of central bankers worldwide are hearing a lot -- and some are listening.

1p ET Sunday, February 18, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While replacing the U.S. dollar bill with dollar coins would be more efficient for the Treasury Department, and while there is plenty of precedent in other countries for it (in Canada and the European Union the smallest paper currency note is for five of the basic currency units), gold and silver sympathizers probably can't help wondering if there might not be more to it in the United States.

6:30p ET Saturday, February 17, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In new commentary, John Mauldin of Millennium Wave Advisers notes, as GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk long has been noting, that gold is now rising in all major currencies.

Mauldin also quotes Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter as acknowledging that someone is trying to cap the gold price at $670 and that "it may be a government." In other recent commentary Gartman has said that he doesn't know who is suppressing gold and doesn't care. This may be construed to mean that he doesn't dare ask. But since Gartman now has acknowledged, in effect, that GATA just MIGHT be right about gold, maybe his apology for years of ridiculing those who have been complaining about the gold price suppression scheme will turn up in Monday's mail.

6p ET Friday, February 16, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver Stock Report editor Jason Hommel has reviewed the International Monetary Fund's concern that its rules allow central banks to double-count their gold, to count leased gold as if it is gold still in the vault. Hommel's essay is titled "Has the IMF Admitted GATA Is Right?" and you can find it at Silver Stock Report here:

http://silverstockreport.com/2007/IMF-GATA_is_right.html