Daily Dispatches

The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux.

-- Cole Porter, "Anything Goes"

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If I Only Had a Hedge Fund

By Jenny Anderson
and Riva D. Atlas
The New York Times
Sunday, March 27, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/business/yourmoney/27hedge.html

4:50p ET Thursday, March 24, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's more commentary arguing that higher U.S.
interest rates will not strengthen the dollar for
long, since they are likely to collapse the U.S.
economy. It's by Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific
Capital in Newport Beach, Calif. You can find it
at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/EuroCapital/1111690692.php

By Timothy Aeppel
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The recent rise in oil prices is reverberating far beyond the world's
energy-intensive industries, spurring cost increases for everything
from military tents in Iraq and weed killer in Iowa to shoes and
Barbie dolls in China.

The continuing surge is causing companies which a year ago saw higher
oil prices as a passing phenomenon to rethink their strategies. Many

By Ted Butler
InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

The latest commitment of traders report showed a very sharp increase
in the net dealer short position in gold, of more than 38,000
futures contracts. That brought the total dealer net short position
to more than 147,000 contracts, an increase of almost 110,000
contracts from the lows some five weeks ago. This increase in the
commercial gold net short position ranks among the largest in