Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7911750

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Barrick Gold Corp. confirmed reports
on Tuesday that a U.S. judge had ordered it and coin dealer
Blanchard and Co. to try to settle an acrimonious antitrust suit,

8:21p ET Sunday, March 13, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters story appended here affirms the progress
being made in Mexico by GATA supporter Hugo Salinas
Price toward remonetizing silver, of which Mexico is
the world's largest producer. Price will address
GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon,
in August.

You may particularly enjoy the comment quoted from
an average "woman in the street" at the bottom of the

Our Currency, Your Problem

By Niall Ferguson
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times
Sunday, March 13, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/magazine/13WWLN.html?

Every congressman knows that the United States currently runs
large "twin deficits" on its budget and current accounts.

Deficit 1, as we well know, is just the difference between federal

By Nicholas K. Geranois
Associated Press Writer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Saturday, March 12, 2005

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?
category=6420&slug=WST%20Mining%20Disaster

SPOKANE, Wash. -- When fire broke out in Idaho's Sunshine Mine in
1972, there was little panic. Miners knew there wasn't much to burn