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Gold supply is under pressure, Merrill fund manager says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Dow Jones News Service
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

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SYDNEY -- Merrill Lynch Investment Managers have a
favorable outlook for gold, underpinned primarily by
emerging pressures on supply, a leading member of
the firm's London-based natural resources team said
late Tuesday.

Amid quot;relatively staticquot; demand, falling mine output

James Turk: The buck drops here

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:58p CT Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney proprietor James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report and consultant
to GATA, has just posted commentary titled
quot;The Buck Drops Here.quot; As usual, Turk has
some pretty compelling dollar and gold charts
to accompany his analysis. You can find it
in the quot;Founder's Commentaryquot; box at the

Gold traders are in for a bumpy ride

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Tuesday, November 9, 2004

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold futures have climbed to their
highest levels in 16 years and are unlikely to stop there.
But traders face a very bumpy ride ahead.

Peter Brimelow: Gold quietly reaches critical level

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Peter Brimelow
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Monday, November 8, 2004

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NEW YORK -- Gold's spot price closed at $434.30 on
Friday -- its highest level since December 1988. It's
been trending relentlessly upward since May.

Thayer Watkins: ''Episodes of Hyperinflation''

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:08p ET Monday, November 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to GATA supporter Mark Lundeen for calling
attention to quot;Episodes of Hyperinflationquot; by San
Jose State University economics professor Thayer
Watkins. Its accounts are fascinating, pathetic,
and tragic. But before anyone starts feeling
superior to the people whose lives were devastated
by government's mismanagement of monetary systems

Financial Times discovers that gold isn''t quite so dead after all

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Monday, November 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Seven months ago the Financial Times bade gold
good riddance, so how, Resource Investor's Tim
Wood asks, can the paper miss the irony of its
acknowledging gold's seeming comeback the
other day? You can find Wood's commentary
here:

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Marshall Loeb: Double deficits and the faith-based dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Marshall Loeb
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, November 5, 2004

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NEW YORK -- As if President Bush doesn't have enough
economic and investment problems to worry about in his

Bloomberg''s weekly gold price forecast survey gets it right half the time

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Choy Leng Yeong
Bloomberg News
Monday, November 8, 2004

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Gold may top a 15-year high of $435 an ounce on
speculation the re-election of U.S. President George
W. Bush will erode the dollar's value and make
precious metals more appealing than U.S. stocks

John Hathaway: Beardsley Ruml''s Road to Ruin, Part 1

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:19p ET Sunday, November 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

John Hathaway, manager of the Tocqueville Gold Fund,
has just written a long analysis of the prospects for
gold and the world financial system, quot;Beardsley Ruml's
Road to Ruin.quot; Hathaway's work may be especially
satisfying to GATA supporters for quoting from the
speech given to the June meeting of the London
Bullion Market Association in Moscow by Oleg V.

Part 2: John Hathaway, ''Beardsley Ruml''s Road to Ruin''

Section: Daily Dispatches

Imbalances must proliferate on artificial suppositions.
Asset values are marked to market in the absence of
an objective standard of value. Credit is extended on
the same false pretenses.Returns are illusory; the
security of credits a fiction. It is the sort of thing that
can happen, unchecked, only in a regime of central
planning.

The misdirection of capital flows in the current global
economy is illustrated by the U.S. trade deficit, the

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