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OPEC is ALREADY pricing oil in euros, GoldMoney''s Turk reveals
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-02-18 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:45a ET Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In a new study, GATA consultant Reginald H.
Howe, proprietor of GoldenSextant.com, draws
on work by silver market analyst Ted Butler
and ties the gold price suppression scheme
to a similar scheme in silver. Howe concludes
that busting the latter scheme could help
bust the former -- which is what GATA aims to
do and why Howe has titled his study quot;Targeting
Dutch central bank tries to scare gold again
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-02-18 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:50p ET Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldMoney proprietor James Turk, editor of The
Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report and consultant
to GATA, has made a discovery of profound
importance: OPEC is not just thinking about
price oil in euros instead of dollars but
ALREADY has been doing so for three years.
Turk's discovery well could shake the currency
and commodity markets. It is announced in his
An open letter from GATA to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-02-18 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesNetherlands plans to sell $866 million of gold
From Business Report, South Africa
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
a href=http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=565amp;fArticleId=351395htt...
By Bloomberg News Service
LONDON -- The Dutch central bank planned to sell 65
metric tons of gold, worth $866 million, after a 15-nation
What is the value of a dollar when most prices are phony and currencies rigged?
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-02-17 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:38p ET Monday, February 16, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Two commentaries of special interest today at
CBSMarketWatch....
John Brimelow, stockbroker and regular contributor
to LeMetropoleCafe.com, writes that gold seems
to be performing the Indian rope trick, continuing
to rise amid disbelief. You can find his commentary
here:
a href=http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B70D38986%2DC796%http:/...
Embry represents the good guys in ROB-TV debate on markets Wednesday
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-02-17 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy John Hathaway, Manager
Tocqueville Gold Fund
February 14, 2004
a href=http://www.tocquevillefunds.com/press/archives.php?id=60http://www.tocqu...
In a Jan. 4 speech this year, Federal Reserve Governor
Ben Bernanke opined that the rising gold price was
caused by terrorism. Geopolitical tensions, he said,
quot;account for the bulk of the recent increase in the real
Special offer for GATA supporters to obtain hundred-ounce silver bars
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-02-17 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches7:49p ET Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA supporter John Embry, president of Sprott Asset
Management in Toronto and manager of the Sprott Gold
and Precious Minerals Fund, will appear live on Report
on Business Television in Canada at 12:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday in something of a debate with Brian Acker,
president and CEO of the Acker Finley brokerage
house in Toronto.
Market-rigging verdict against beef packer is encouraging for Blanchard case
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-02-17 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9p ET Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA is in the market-liberation business, not the
investment advice business. But when liberating a
market also presents an investment opportunity,
GATA may be obliged to point it out. So appended
is an excerpt from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's
quot;Midasquot; commentary tonight at LeMetropoleCafe.com,
reporting a special offer made to GATA supporters
Ted Butler: NYMEX/COMEX start to sweat, so let''s keep the pressure on
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10p ET Saturday, February 14, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
As you'll see from the Reuters stories below, Germany
again is talking about selling gold reserves, just hours
after there were strong indications of intervention in
the currency markets to weaken the euro against the
dollar. These are often reliable signals of dangerous
stress in the currency markets and the need of the
central banks to scare gold buyers.
Bill Fleckenstein: The seven stages of a dollar crisis
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Theodore Butler
When I first read the following press release from the
NYMEX/COMEX I was angry. Then I realized that this
was a time for pushing ahead in a professional and
logical manner, as the stakes were too important.
First, here's the press release.
* * *
Exchange Expands Retail Customer Protection
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2004 -- The New York Mercantile Exchange
Inc. today established additional retail customer protections
At CBSMarketWatch, gold''s Indian rope trick and a report on bullion funds
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesThe seven stages of a dollar crisis --
... 'Experts' simplistically tout a weak dollar
as good news. No wonder many regular folks
are unaware that its dramatic decline could
spell real trouble.
By Bill Fleckenstein
a href=http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P72747.asphttp://moneycentral.msn.co...
Along the way to a full-blown crisis, the steps leading up to