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Antal Fekete explains how floating exchange rates destroy industry

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:01p ET Saturday, April 2, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The April "Market Observations" column of
ContraryInvestor.com of Vallejo, California,
is a wonderful analysis of how the credit
derivatives business is behind the U.S.
real estate bubble and how that bubble is
now the main part of the U.S. economy.
You can find it here:

http://www.contraryinvestor.com/mo.htm

Julian Phillips: Europe is managing gold price but not pushing it down

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:52p ET Saturday, April 2, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Don't miss Antal E. Fekete's third installment of "The
GoldBug Variations," where he asserts, in part:

"It is true that the international gold standard confines
the foreign exchange rate between two countries
adhering to it to a narrow range between the gold
export and import points. This is not a drawback of

IMF study says market could handle limited and phased gold sales

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Thursday, March 31, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA gets favorable mention in the new commentary
of Financial Insights editor Dr. Richard Appel, "The
Action of Gold and the Dollar is Surreal," which you
can find at GoldSeek.com here:

http://news.goldseek.com/FinancialInsights/1112296458.php

John Embry: More on gold manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

IMF Says Limited Gold Sale
Could Be Accommodated

By Lesley Wroughton
Reuters
Friday, April 1, 2005

http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?
type=businessNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8057598

WASHINGTON -- A small amount of phased gold sales from the
International Monetary Fund's stockpile to fund debt relief for poor

Bob Chapman: Stay away from the exchange-traded gold fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Friday, April 1, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment
strategist, John Embry, has written an
excellent commentary for the March issue
of Investor's Digest of Canada. It's titled
"More on Gold Manipulation" and you can
find it here:

http://www.sprott.com/pdf/investorsdigest/investors_digest_mar_04_2005

A dollar cartel buys American bonds

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:07p ET Friday, April 1, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Bob Chapman has some choice words for the World
Gold Council and its exchange-traded gold fund
in the March issue of International Forecaster.
You can read Chapman's comments at GoldSeek.com
here:

http://news.goldseek.com/InternationalForecaster/1112383785.php

Ben ''Helicopter Money'' Bernanke will be chairman of Council of Economic Advisers

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Floyd Norris
International Herald Tribune, Paris
Saturday, April 2, 2005

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/01/business/WBMARKET02.html

Third-world countries used to complain that all their assets were
owned by foreigners, sometimes viewed as exploitative first-world
capitalists. That cry can still be heard occasionally in such places

No settlement in Blanchard suit against Barrick and Morgan Chase

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:36p ET Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, founder of GoldMoney, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and consultant
to GATA, has been interviewed about his new
book, written with John Rubino, "The Coming
Collapse of the Dollar," and about the
international financial situation generally. You
can listen to it at HoweStreet.com here:

Here''s how they''re keeping the dollar up and gold down

Section: Daily Dispatches

Barrick, Blanchard Didn't Settle Gold Plot Suit

From Reuters
Thursday, March 31,2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh58857_2005-03-31_18-37-03_n31727076_newsml

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Barrick Gold Corp. and Blanchard, the
New Orleans bullion and coin dealer that accuses the miner of

Gold market discounts more IMF sales talk

Section: Daily Dispatches

ECB Sells 47 Tonnes of Gold

By Kevin Morrison and Ralph Atkins
Financial Times
Thursday, March 31 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/df9f21fc-a20d-11d9-8483-00000e2511c8.html

The European Central Bank declared on Thursday it had sold 47 tonnes
of gold, the first disposal of any of its official reserves since
its creation in 1999.

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