Daily Dispatches

5:36p ET Sunday, February 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, founder of GoldMoney
and editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report,
has written in his newsletter an excellent review
of the British government's obsession with
putting the International Monetary Fund's gold
on the market. Turk's analysis is titled "The
Truth Behind the Proposal to Sell IMF Gold" and

8:32p ET Monday, February 28, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Clive Roffey, editor of Gold Action, has interesting
commentary about last week's panic selling of the
shares of Durban Deep, a longtime supporter of GATA.
It's called "DROOY Panic" and you can find it at
GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldAction/1109602803.php

Yellow Metal to be Traded in Paper Form

Business Standard, Mumbai
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

http://www.business-standard.com/smartinvestor/storypage.php?
chklogin=N&autono=182101&lselect=1&leftnm=lmnu6&leftindx=6

The Union finance minister today announced that the Securities
Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Expert View:
Diversification From the East
Could Send the Dollar South

By Bill Robinson
The Independent, London
Sunday, February 27, 2005

The renewed weakness of the dollar last week may be the beginning of
the end of a set of fundamentally unsustainable arrangements that
have nevertheless proved surprisingly durable because they have
suited all the participants rather well.

The weakness of the dollar is usually blamed on the US twin