Daily Dispatches

5:24p PT Sunday, January 23, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In a few minutes at the Vancouver Resources Investment
Conference, GATA will announce plans for a gold
conference of its own from which, we hope, will arise a
new mobilization of the precious metals mining industry.

The GATA conference will be called Gold Rush 21; it
will be held in August in Dawson City, Yukon Territory,

From BBC News
Monday, January 24, 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4200811.stm

Many of the world's central banks are starting to look to the
euro to fill their currency reserves instead of the dollar, a
survey suggests. The poll, carried out by Central Banking
Publications, found 39 nations of the 65 surveyed raising
their euro holdings, with 29 cutting back on the U.S. dollar.

From Reuters
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh90905_2005-01-19_19-27-59_n19372172_newsml

PARIS -- French Finance Minister Herve Gaymard said
on Wednesday he hoped the United States would agree
at a G7 meeting in London next month that the slide in
the U.S. dollar must not continue.

An Economic Playground

By John Mauldin
DailyReckoning.com
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

We are all familiar with the seesaw. Who among us did not play upon
one as a kid? Seesaws work as long as both partners work together.
Indeed, with the proper cooperation, they are quite fun. However,
there are more than few of you who let your partner get to the top
of his ride and then jump off, allowing him to drop to the ground.