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Alf Field: The bell tolls for the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:24p ET Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The news from New Orleans is getting worse, not
better, and the mayor said this afternoon that there
probably have been thousands of fatalities in the
city and that the city probably won't be functioning
for two or three months.

Communications with New Orleans being so irregular,
we've not heard anything from our friends at

Murphy''s ''Midas'' commentary for Tuesday, August 30, posted at GoldSeek

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:15p ET Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb's Gareth Tredway has written a profile of
Switzerland's Top Gold fund, managed by GATA
heroes Ferdinand Lips and Jean-Pierre Schumacher.
You can find it here:

http://www.mineweb.net/sections/gold_silver/477496.htm

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Help hurricane victims while we wait for word on the New Orleans conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:08p ET Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary
for Tuesday, August 30, has been posted in the
clear at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/LemetropoleCafe/1125496980.php

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

China''s top banker says move to market-based exchange rate won''t be slow

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:15p ET Monday, August 29, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood reports without comment
that the ratio between the price of oil and the price
of gold has reached a record extreme, suggesting that
gold is underpriced. Wood's report has a lot of nice
charts with it but fails to draw the obvious conclusion:
Central banks are aggressively suppressing the gold
price. You can find Wood's report here:

MineWeb profiles Top Gold fund, managed by Ferdinand Lips and J.P. Schumacher

Section: Daily Dispatches

China's Bank Chief Seeks
to Allay Renminbi Fears

By Andrew Balls
Financial Times, London
Monday, August 29, 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb859dfe-1828-11da-a14b-00000e2511c8.html

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- recent reforms to China's currency regime
do not represent a one-off adjustment, according to Zhou Xiaochuan,

Gold price trails oil by more than ever

Section: Daily Dispatches

Wall Street, Fed At Odds
On Effect of Any Dollar Collapse

From Reuters
Friday, August 26, 2005

http://today.reuters.co.uk/investing/financeArticle.aspx?
type=usDollarRpt&storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20050826:MTFH2666
3_2005-08-26_16-35-57_N26409411:1

NEW YORK -- Although a dollar crash is unlikely any time soon, a

Russia and China might consider replacing dollar in bilateral trade

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:05p ET Saturday, August 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report,
has posted "An Update on the Dollar" in the
"Founder's Commentary" box at the top left of the
GoldMoney home page here:

http://goldmoney.com

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Dumping of dollar could cause economic Sept. 11, U.S. expert says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Yelena Fedorova
Novosti News Agency
Sunday, August 28, 2005

http://en.rian.ru/business/20050828/41239808.html

MOSCOW -- Russia and China might consider replacing the dollar in
bilateral trade, a senior banking expert said on the eve of the
Third Russian-Chinese Banking Forum opening Monday.

Garegin Torsunyan, president of the Association of Russian Banks

GATA seeks contributions for production of Gold Rush 21 video disc

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Bruce Stannard
The Australian, Sydney
Monday, August 29, 2005

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,1641668
0%255E28737,00.html

The nightmare scenario that haunts global strategist Clyde
Prestowitz is an economic September 11 -- a worldwide financial
panic triggered by a sudden massive selloff of US dollars that would

Fed study rationalizes dollar collapse

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Sunday, August 28, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold Rush 21, GATA's conference in Dawson City,
Yukon Territory, Canada, was so well-received that
we have decided to produce a video recording of the
conference on computer disc -- they call them DVDs
-- in time for presentation at GATA's fund-raising
dinner at the New Orleans Investment Conference
on Wednesday, November 2, assuming that the

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