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Argentina opens a Museum of Foreign Debt; can one in Washington be far behind?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:38p ET Thursday, December 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

David McKay of MiningMX.com today posts an
important interview with AngloGoldAshanti's
marketing director, Kelvin Williams, who all
but declares that central banks are trying
to regulate the gold price.

From the interview:

"Williams also said central bank attitudes toward
gold had changed because its profile as a store

Sweet dreams, courtesy of Rick Ackerman and John Mackenzie

Section: Daily Dispatches

Argentina's Debt Museum Is Set
To Tackle Woeful Financial Past

By Suzelle Tempero
of Dow Jones Newswires
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, December 8, 2004

BUENOS AIRES -- When tourists in Buenos Aires tire
of the usual museum fare of tango, Evita, and Argentine
art, they can delve into a more academic topic: the
country's staggering external debt.

Set to open in March at the University of Buenos Aires,

Tim W. Wood: Dump gold because it badly lags the CRB Index this time

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:27p ET Thursday, December 9, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Stick your head up long enough to read Rick
Ackerman's commentary tonight, which quotes
John Mackenzie unrepentantly repeating his
prediction of an imminent reverse in the gold
price that will take it up to $556. You can
find it at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/RickAckerman/1102608000.php

Reg Howe: Central banks at the abyss

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:42p ET Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood examines the questions
about the security of the gold in the World Gold
Council's exchange-traded bullion fund and finds
that James Turk and GATA have landed an unlikely
ally in the financial establishment: Mitsui's Andy
Smith, never considered much of a friend of gold as
an investment.

Smith calls the bullion fund "a paper claim based on

GATA Chairman Murphy''s ''Midas'' commentary for Dec. 8 posted at GoldSeek.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:49a ET Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Reginald H. Howe, proprietor of the Golden Sextant
Internet site and consultant to GATA, has just
completed a new analysis of the monetary situation,
"Deja Vu: Central Banks at the Abyss." It examines
the prospects for what Howe calls MAD money -- as
in "mutual assured destruction." You can find it
at the Golden Sextant home page here:

OPEC sharply reduces dollar exposure

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:33p ET Monday, December 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you've already helped GATA, please discard this
dispatch. (You know who you are, R.McD., J.G., D.S.,
J-P.S., H.B., M.K., M.R., J.P., H.S.P., and the
rest. ...)

If you have NOT helped GATA yet, please read on and
consider helping us now.

We're not very attentive to fund-raising and thus too
often have relied again and again on the same people.

Bullion Desk sneers at questions it dares not report

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Steve Johnson and Javier Blas
Financial Times, London
Monday, December 6, 2004

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/67f88f7c-47cb-11d9-a0fd-00000e2511c8.html

LONDON -- Oil exporters have sharply reduced
their exposure to the US dollar over the past three
years, according to data from the Bank for
International Settlements.

Ted Butler: China trades oil (badly)

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:15p ET Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

TheBullionDesk.com today posted an unsigned
editorial defending the World Gold Council's
exchange-traded bullion fund against criticism
and questions from GATA and its consultant,
James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold &
Money Report and founder of GoldMoney.

The Bullion Desk's commentary, headlined
"Allegations About Gold ETF by James Turk

Canadian dollar falls as bank drops pledge to lift target rate

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

http://www.investmentrarities.com

The current COTs indicate no basic change in the extreme readings in
gold and silver. The tech funds are very long and the dealers are
very short. The outcome is still very much unresolved. It is true
that the dealers are sitting on significant losses and the tech
funds have very large open profits in gold and silver, but it is

Resource Investor finds something to question about WGC''s bullion fund

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Joshua Krongold
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000082&sid=aqPFgZJidwjE&refer=canada

NEW YORK -- Canada's dollar fell to a two-week low
and bonds rose after the Bank of Canada refrained
from increasing its 2.5 percent target interest rate
and dropped its pledge to lift the rate "over time."

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