Daily Dispatches

Refco Probes Lead to $525 Million
in Phantom Bonds, Hedge Fund

By Otis Bilodeau and Allan Dodds Frank
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000087&sid=aQ0Nt31p4mPs&refer=top_world_news

Refco Inc. held offshore accounts with as much as $525 million in
fake bonds, indicating that the futures broker's troubles may be

9p ET Friday, March 10, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones has written a long
analysis of disagreement between CPM Group and
Gold Fields Mineral Services over silver inventories.
As with gold, GFMS seems to think that there's
plenty of silver out there -- somewhere over the
rainbow. You can find Nones' report here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=17783

8:41p ET Thursday, March 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here it is in the open again -- a former central banker
arguing that central banks have to work together to rig
(they call it "manage") the currency and gold markets
and that, indeed, this is the plan for arranging a long
and gradual decline of the U.S. dollar.

The former central banker, John Nugee, director of the

9:32p ET Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's the latest anti-gold propaganda, a story from
the London Times reporting that child pornography
is increasingly being purchased by people using
electronic gold payment systems.

The manager of an Internet watch group says of the
use ofe-gold systems by child porn buyers: "It is
not foolproof. But it does make it harder for us to