Daily Dispatches

11:58p ET Wednesday, April 5, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Bloomberg story appended here shows that the
statement of U.S. Rep. James Saxton, chairman of
the Joint Economic Committee of Congress,
opposing the sale of gold by the International
Monetary Fund has gotten a lot of notice even as
it has raised some questions.

-- The United States and Britain are allies, so
would the British finance minister be agitating

10:18p ET Monday, April 4, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Watch John Embry, chief investment strategist
for Sprott Asset Management, make mincemeat
of Brian Acker, CEO of Acker Finley Inc., in
a discussion of gold and other markets on
ROB-TV's "Market Call" program with Jim
O'Connell.

The program was broadcast this afternoon on
ROB-TV, the Canadian business television

By John Connor
Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, April 5, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., chairman of Congress's Joint
Economic Committee, said any movement by the International Monetary
Fund toward gold sales will be stopped by Congress and the Bush
Administration.

In a statement Tuesday, Rep. Saxton said the IMF is considering gold
sales as a way of covering the bad loans it has made to

8:19p ET Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MineWeb Radio in South Africa today interviewed Jessica
Cross of Virtual Metals, and while she seems to have been
in that country to develop a scheme of shorting all its
mineral wealth, she had to admit that demand for physical
gold is "phenomenal." You can find a transcript of the
interview here:

http://www.mineweb.net/radio/classic_mining/430071.htm