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Ted Butler: To win Texas Hold ''Em in silver, just ... hold that silver!
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-07-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:40p ET Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Among the reasons we're going to win is that we've
got writers like David Bond on our side. Bond's
latest Wallace Street Journal column, titled "Silver
Is Back," remarks that GATA Chairman Bill Murphy is
right about the rigging of the gold market and shows
that the people of Idaho's Silver Valley aren't
waiting for the Comex and the Federal Reserve to
India''s prosperity seen boosting demand for gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-07-05 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8a ET Friday, July 2, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Supporters of the legislation pending in New
Hampshire to authorize state government to
use U.S. gold and silver coins in its
ordinary financial transactions have
established an Internet site. The information
there well might be used by adherents of sound
money in other states. GATA consultant James
Turk, a New Hampshire resident, has spoken on
Newmont president sees gold in ''paradigm shift''
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-07-05 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Prasenjit Bhattacharya
Dow Jones Newswires
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040705/15/3lhrc.html
NEW DELHI, July 5 -- Strong growth in India's farm
incomes after a second straight year of good
monsoon rains will boost demand for gold in 2004,
leading to higher imports this year, a senior industry
official has said.
"Rural demand in the first six months has been very
GATA Chairman Murphy interviewed at Vancouver conference
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-07-05 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatcheshttp://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5582687
NEW YORK, July 4 (Reuters) -- Newmont Mining Corp.'s
president, Pierre Lassonde, said that the price of gold is
at the beginning of a long-term bull run, which should
support the company's stock, the latest edition of
business weekly Barron's reported.
James Turk: ''Fear Index'' still rates gold as a buy
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2004-07-02 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Gretchen Morgenson
The New York Times
Thursday, July 1, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/business/01place.html
Inflation and market interest rates are far ahead of
Alan Greenspan's federal funds rate, which he raised
yesterday to 1.25 percent. Now the nation will see
how well Mr. Greenspan, the Federal Reserve
Internet site promotes New Hampshire legislation to remonetize gold and silver
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2004-07-02 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7:52a ET Friday, July 2, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money
Report, proprietor of GoldMoney.com, and consultant
to GATA, has updated his "Fear Index" and finds that
it still rates gold as a buy. You can find Turk's
analysis in the "Founder's Commentary" box at the
top left of the GoldMoney home page here:
New York Times: As Greenspan Chases Inflation, Critics Shout, ''Faster!''
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-07-01 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Doug Casey
for The Daily Reckoning
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
I have said it many times: Mining is an innately risky
business. Worse, it's an impossible business if metals'
prices are too low. In the case of silver, during the long
bear market from 1980 to 2003, when silver traded mostly in
the $3.50-$5 per ounce range, there were no major, public,
Unregulated derivatives very profitable for big banks but carry systemic risk
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-06-30 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:47p ET Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for
tonight at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been posted in
the clear at GoldSeek.com and is especially notable
for describing the failure of the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission to correct in a timely way the
gross errors in its commitment-of-traders report
last week. That failure set last week's gold
Ted Butler''s silver report: Signs of supply tightness on first delivery day
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-06-30 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesDerivatives markets outstrip regulation;
Favorite tool of hedge funds
is now a $140 trillion industry
By Tom Bemis
Commentary Editor
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?
source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B12E497F6%2DBEB9%2D4DEF%
2D8697%2D8629275E932C%7D
Doug Casey: Silver is Rodney Dangerfield now but probably a mania soon
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-06-30 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Ted Butler
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
http://www.InvestmentRarities.com
I delayed this article for a day in order to review
the statistics concerning the first delivery day on
the COMEX July silver contract and to see if the
CFTC would correct the material error they made in
the latest Commitments of Traders Report (COT) for
COMEX gold, silver and copper. As it turns out,