Daily Dispatches

9:50p ET Friday, February 11, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bill Bonner's new essay, "Greenspan's Whopper,"
appended here, provides much explanation of why
the U.S. government might have wanted to
suppress the gold price in recent years.

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

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By Bill Bonner
DailyReckoning.com
Friday, February 11, 2005

12:20a ET Thursday, February 10, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The new KitcoCasey Internet site has a brilliant
interview with Sprott Asset Management Chief
Investment Strategist John Embry, co-author
with Andrew Hepburn of "Not Free, Not Fair:
the Long-Term Manipulation of the Gold Price."
The interview's subject is just that. It was
conducted by Dave Forest and you can find it

By The Associated Press
Thursday February 10, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050210/gold_fight_7.html

TORONTO -- Shareholders in Goldcorp Inc. spurned an aggressive Nevada-
based gold producer Thursday as they voted in favor of a $1.9 billion
buyout of Wheaton River Minerals of Vancouver.

The Wheaton River deal was approved by about 65 percent at a special

8:30p ET Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story appended here about IMF gold
sales may be most interesting for the observations
of the Canadian gold market analyst Martin
Murenbeeld, who speculates that any gold sold
will be sold to central banks, particularly those
with large surpluses of U.S. dollars. Thus the
gold would remain in official hands and never