Daily Dispatches

Bill Urges Use of Gold, Silver as Legal Tender

By Kevin Landrigan
Nashua (New Hampshire) Telegraph
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
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CONCORD -- Promoting the use of gold and silver
by state government would trigger a flood of
investment in New Hampshire, according to

Cheapening the Dollar

By Edmund L. Andrews
The New York Times
Sunday, Februay 8, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary John W. Snow has tacitly
but unmistakably abandoned Washington's longstanding
support for a strong dollar in favor of a weak dollar that

9:09p ET Monday, February 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler's latest commentary,
appended here, reports on indications of trouble for
the silver shorts and, more importantly, on the
request of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
for comment from the public on the governance of
the commodities markets.

As Butler writes, this opportunity must be seized by

11:08p ET Saturday, February 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story about the G-7 meeting appended here
may be most interesting for quoting a Merrill Lynch
foreign-exchange expert as predicting that the European
Central Bank soon will be undercutting its own currency
just as Asian central banks have been doing, and for
acknowledging that currency manipulation is indeed