Daily Dispatches

White House Sends OFHEO's Brickell Nomination To Senate

By Dawn Kopecki
Dow Jones Newswires
Thursday June 12, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- After months of delay, the White House
hurried to the U.S. Senate Thursday the formal nomination
of a new director of the federal agency that regulates
Freddic Mac, just three days after the company booted its
top executives over problems with its accounting practices.

Gold Bugs Get Their Answer

By Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Insight Magazine online
June 12, 2003

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More than a year ago, Blanchard amp; Co. of New Orleans,
the nation's largest retailer of precious-metal coins, filed
a lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase amp; Co. and a
Canadian mining corporation, Barrick Gold Corp.,

12:08a ET Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mike Hartman's quot;Today's Wrap-upquot; commentary at
Jim Puplava's invaluable Internet site,
www.financialsense.com, links support of stock
prices with the Federal Reserve's lately constant
intervention in the bond market -- something GATA
consultant Mike Bolser has been pointing out for
weeks now.

Here's an excerpt from Hartman's commentary:

10:14p ET Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A longtime supporter of GATA wrote today in near-
despair at the pounding gold took Tuesday. The
manipulation of the gold market and other markets
is so brazen now, he said, but what can we ever do
to stop the bad guys?

All I could answer was that GATA would continue
to do what it has been doing for four years now,
would continue to try to expose the bad guys and