Daily Dispatches

1:11a ET Friday, May 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood reports on what may
have been the most interesting presentation at
Thursday's meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education in New York -- Edwin
Viera's on legislation proposed in New Hampshire
to put gold and silver back to work as currency
for transactions with state government.

You can find the Resource Investor report here:

By Steve Johnson
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c365f284-bbeb-11d9-817e-00000e2511c8.html

Fears of a weakening appetite for dollars among Asian central banks
were re-ignited on Tuesday when India became the latest nation to
talk of reserve diversification.

India is secretive about the composition of its reserves, which have

By Ted Butler
InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

I'm trying to avoid the short-term analysis of price movements. But
the recent swoon in the price of silver by some 40 cents and the
change in the market structure on the COMEX require comment. While
I'll be the first to admit that I did not fully expect this blip to
the downside, the one-week selloff in silver has dramatically
improved the market structure. I'm convinced that the tech funds

1:12a ET Friday, April 29, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MiningMX's David McKay elaborates on Gold Fields
Mineral Service's 2005 gold survey and finds that
it reports continuing declines in both gold
production and hedging by gold producers.

With gold demand rising, how is the growing gap
between supply and demand being filled so that
the gold price may be restrained? Just where