Daily Dispatches

JP Morgan Is Reported Seeking
Strategic Stake in Bank of China

From Reuters
Monday, August 23, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6038683

HONG KONG -- State-run Bank of China, the country's
largest foreign exchange lender, is in active
discussions with U.S. investment bank JP Morgan

12:08p ET Saturday, August 21, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In the Financial Times story about oil prices
that is appended here, you may see what GATA
consultant Reg Howe was saying three years ago
this month in his analysis of U.S. Treasury
Secretary-to-be Lawrence Summers' 1988 academic
study of the relationship of interest rates
and the gold price. You also may see what GATA
consultant James Turk twice this year, most

12:17a ET Friday, August 20, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

CNBC financial commentator Lawrence Kudlow
is, like everyone else at that network of
hype and fluffery, no friend of gold,
but he may have done the gold cause a favor
with his Aug. 12 syndicated newspaper column,
forwarded to GATA by our longtime supporter
in Halifax, Barrie Walsh, and appended here.

In his column Kudlow argues that President

9:23p ET Thursday, August 19, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Report on Business Television in Toronto, which might
as well call itself Radio Free America, continues to
distinguish itself from CNBC in the United States by
allowing guests to mention the suppression of the
gold price.

It happened again yesterday as ROB-TV did a long
interview with Peter Grandich, editor and publisher