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John Crudele: A plan for a plunge

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:54p PT Monday, June 12, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler's new commentary,
"Silver Default Looming," warns that the worsening
concentration in the short position in silver on the
New York commodities exchange raises the danger
of a default. You can find Butler's commentary at
GoldSeek here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1150143488.php

Dollar gains on a flight to liquidity, not quality

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Crudele
New York Post
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

http://www.nypost.com/business/a_plan_for_a_plunge_business_john_crud
ele.htm

The real circumstances behind the death of Vince Foster. The
location of Michael Jackson's nose. And the government's meddling to
keep the stock market from collapsing.

Those were three mysteries in the 1990s that were destined never to

On ROB-TV, John Embry discusses central bank manipulation of markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Steven C. Johnson
Reuters
Tuesday, June 12, 2006

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?
type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-06-
13T135911Z_01_L13168794_RTRUKOC_0_US-DOLLAR-GAINS-ANALYSIS.xml

NEW YORK -- Global investors' sudden allergy to risk is proving a
boon for the U.S. currency, as money managers sell stocks,
commodities and emerging-market assets and park the proceeds in

World needs financial system without a dominating currency, Russian official says

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:32a ET Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment strategist,
John Embry, bravely went on "Market Call with Jim
O'Connell" on ROB-TV in Canada today as gold and
silver were being pummeled and discussed central bank
manipulation of those and other markets.

You can watch Embry's appearance for a week at the
ROB-TV archive here:

GATA chairman''s address in Vancouver and interview with Resource Investor

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p PT Saturday, June 10, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Barron's today published an exchange between Stuart
Thomas, managing director of World Gold Trust
Services, manager of the streetTRACKS Gold Shares
fund, and GATA consultant and GoldMoney founder
James Turk over the security of exchange-traded funds
in gold. That exchange is appended here, along with
the full text of the response Turk provided to Barron's,

James Turk: Two views of the U.S. dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:53a PT Monday, June 12, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's address to the 2006
Vancouver Gold, PGM, and Diamond Conference,
"GATA Keeps Its Promise to Zulu King Goodwill
Zwelitini," has been posted at GATA's Internet
site here:

http://www.gata.org/GATAPresVanc2006.htm

It also has been posted at several gold-oriented

Ted Butler: Silver default looming?

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:08p PT Monday, June 12, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, updates
his dollar and gold charts in "Two Views of the U.S.
Dollar," analysis posted today in the "Founder's
Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney home
page here:

http://goldmoney.com

John Crudele: Paulson''s new job -- as plunge protector

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:17p ET Thursday, June 8, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

America Online tonight terminated GATA's e-mail account,
GATAComm@aol.com, without notice, destroying GATA's
e-mail address book.

Don't worry -- it had nothing to do with the substance
of GATA's work. Rather, it is a matter of AOL's chronic
inability to distinguish GATA mail from junk mail and
the service's repudiating the assurance it gave GATA in

Just how real is the gold behind those exchange-traded funds?

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Crudele
New York Post
Thursday, June 8, 2006

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06082006/business/67140.htm

Quick, somebody tell soon-to-be Treasury Secretary
Hank Paulson about the other part of his job: being a
member of the Plunge Protection Team.

What is that? It's something that Wall Street is gonna
need if the stock market continues to be freaky.

Russia joins Middle East in shifting foreign exchange away from dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:53p ET Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

While so many of us fret about our mining shares,
Michael Kosares, proprietor of Centennial Precious
Metals in Denver, demonstrates that buying gold
in June and July and walking away has been a
consistently winning trade. And of course it does
exactly what the plutocracy fears most -- that is,
it draws metal stockpiles down.

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