Daily Dispatches

9:34p ET Saturday, April 10, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Financial Post's interview today with John Ing, chief
of Toronto investment house Maison Placements, appended
here, echoes what you've been hearing from GATA and its
consultants and friends, like GoldMoney's James Turk and
Sprott Asset Management's John Embry, for a long time now.
The nice thing is that these points are starting to reach

12:34p ET Sunday, April 11, 2004

David Bond's latest Wallace Street Journal column is
an interview with Hecla CEO Phillips S. Baker, who
says, among other things, that Hecla has been assured
that it will recover the gold recently seized by the
Venezuelan government and that Hecla won't be hedging
its gold and silver production. You can find Bond's
interview at his Internet site here:

http://www.silverminers.com/bond/bond20040406.html

11a ET Saturday, April 10, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, editor of The Freemarket Gold & Money
Report, proprietor of GoldMoney, and consultant to
GATA, has responded to Frank Veneroso's warning
about investing in commodities. Turk's conclusion:
"I expect that gold has many more years left in its
current bull market, regardless what happens to corn,
copper, soybeans, silver, and other commodities."

9:39p ET Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

FallStreet.com has a wonderful analysis by Brady Willett,
"Silver A Sell, Unless the Jig Is Up." Drawing on Ted
Butler's research, Willett notes that, uniquely among
commodity markets, in silver the commercial interests are
always short.

Willett also argues the most markets, including the gold
market, are manipulated and that the manipulators usually