Daily Dispatches

9:31p ET Sunday, February 5, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Look how desperately Bloomberg News Service
underplays and obscures the Cheuvreux report
on the suppression of the gold price by central
banks. And yet that Bloomberg feels compelled
to mention the report at all is a great triumph
for our side. It just gives you another
indication of how much gold and its friends are
up against from the financial and news media

11:57p ET Friday, February 3, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jim O'Connell, host of "Business Morning" on Report
on Business Television in Canada, today interviewed
John Ing, president of Maison Placements in Toronto
and the firm's gold market analyst, about gold's
prospects, and the questions included one about the
Credit Agricole / Cheuvreux report endorsing GATA's
findings that central banks have been suppressing

Berlin and Bundesbank at Odds
Over Proceeds from Sales of Gold Reserves

By Birgit Marschall and Bertrand Benoit
Financial Times, London
Friday, February 3, 2006

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8c59dc2c-945a-11da-82ea-0000779e2340.html

A long-running row between the German government and the Bundesbank
took a new turn yesterday as it emerged that the Finance Ministry

12:27a ET Thursday, February 2, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In his latest essay, "Slam Dunk?," silver market analyst
Ted Butler speculates on the likely impact of approval of
a silver exchange-traded fund and the likely impact of
rejection of such a fund. He concludes that rejection
might be as explosive as approval, since rejection would
be based on an official determination that silver is in