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Billionaires can''t take the silver, but you can

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:25p ET Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy has received from the
office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
a reply to GATA's appeal for an investigation of
the Comex silver market of the New York Mercantile
Exchange. Murphy's including a U.S. silver eagle
with his letter seems to have gotten a little
attention, even as the coin was returned to him.

Dow Jones reports AG Spitzer''s acknowledgement of request for silver probe

Section: Daily Dispatches

Bigger Isn't Always Better
By Theodore Butler
March 9, 2004

Recently Forbes magazine released its annual listing of
the world's richest individuals. For those who may have
missed it, let me give you the highlights.

The criteria for making the list is a minimum personal net
worth of a billion dollars. That's one thousand million
dollars of personal net worth.

Just a few years ago, the list contained many with net

Reports from the opening of the PDAC conference in Toronto

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:45p ET Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's announcement today of the reply from the office
from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer turned up
as a story on Dow Jones Newswires late this afternoon.
Thus our request for investigation of the suppression
of the price of silver escaped into the mainstream media.

The lesson here is simply, once again, Churchill's

No gold lending business anymore, central banker tells Financial Times

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:27p ET Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb's Tim Wood and Dorothy Kosich are hard at
work in Toronto reporting about the opening of the
annual meeting of the Prospectors and Developers
Association of Canada. You can find their first
seven stories about the conference on the MineWeb
home page here:

a href=http://www.mineweb.com/http://www.mineweb.com//a

Silver closes above $7 for first time in eight years; gold regains strength

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold traders show muted reaction to bankers' pact

By Kevin Morrison in London
and Tony Major in Frankfurt
Financial Times
Tuesday, March 9, 2004

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The gold market's muted reaction to the renewal of the

Link to Dow Jones Newswires story about GATA appeal to AG Spitzer

Section: Daily Dispatches

Silver ends at 8-year high; gold climbs;
dollar, stock market lose ground; mining shares mixed

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Tuesday, March 9, 2004

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Silver futures ended Tuesday's session

London/New York suppression of gold price continues to weaken, Clawar finds

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:33a ET Sunday, March 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In addition to its posting at GoldSeek.com, GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy's Friday night quot;Midasquot;
commentary at LeMetropoleCafe.com also has been
posted in the clear at Gold-Eagle.com here:

a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_04/murphy030804.htmlhttp://www.gold...

New European central bank gold agreement fulfills expectations

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30a ET Monday, March 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Harry Clawar has updated his comparison of gold trading
around the world with trading in London and New York
and concludes that the London/New York suppression of
the gold price is weakening enough to allow gold to
reach $513 by the end of the year. You can find Clawar's
latest analysis at Gold-Eagle here:

a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_04/clawar030804.htmlhttp://www.gold...

Why the new central bank agreement is bullish for gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

Central bankers sign new accord on gold

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By Thomas Atkins

BASEL, Switzerland, March 8 (Reuters) -- Europe's central
banks said on Monday they had reached a new deal that

The ''Greenspan put'' is the end of moral hazard in the markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

The New Gold Accord

By Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
a href=http://www.USAGold.comhttp://www.USAGold.com/a
Monday, March 8, 2004

I see the renewal of the European central banks' gold sales
agreement as a positive for the gold market. Here's why.

When you look a the supply demand tables, the one thing that
stands out clearly is that mine production is static in the

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