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Ted Butler: The new silver era starts revealing itself in price action

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:56a ET Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas" commentary for
August 9 at LeMetropoleCafe.com has been posted in
the clear at GoldSeek.com and is especially
remarkable for quoting comments broadcast three
years ago by CNBC analyst Lawrence Kudlow about
the ratio of oil and gold prices. Using the ratio of
Kudlow's broadcast three years ago, Murphy notes that

James Turk: Uh-Oh, Look What Happened to the Dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold tops $400 for first time in two weeks;
jobs data drags U.S. dollar lower, lifting metals sector

By Myra P. Saefong
CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, August 6, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?
column=Metals+Stocks&siteid=mktw

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold futures closed above $400
an ounce for the first time in two weeks Friday, logging

Energy-hungry miners must worry about $50 oil ...

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:10a ET Sunday, August 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, proprietor of GoldMoney.com, editor
of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and
consultant to GATA, has updated his U.S. dollar
index chart and reports that the dollar continues
to be repelled by its downtrend line. He adds
that the quarter-percent increase in interest
rates expected from the Federal Reserve on Tuesday

British HSBC bank buys stake in Chinese state bank

Section: Daily Dispatches

... But one analyst says oil won't discourage gold stocks

By Steve James
Reuters
Sunday, August 8, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5904223

NEW YORK -- Mining giants like Phelps Dodge Corp.
are riding the crest of a wave right now, with
sky-high metal prices bolstering their bottom line.

Disastrous jobs report may reverse attitudes on dollar, interest rates, metals

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:15p ET Thursday, August 5, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy has given an Internet
radio interview to FreeMarketNews.com. You can
find it at the right side of the site's home page
here:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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GATA Chairman Murphy interviewed by FreeMarketNews.com

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
August 3, 2004
www.InvestmentRarities.com

As expected, there was a major liquidation of tech
fund long gold positions, with massive dealer short
covering. According to the latest COTs, as of July
27 the gold cleanout appears complete, with the
path of least resistance now to the upside. How
significant the probable gold rally will be depends
on how aggressive the dealers short-sell on that

Ted Butler: Silver is for serious money

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:57a ET Saturday, July 31, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There is growing realization that the world's major
financial markets -- not just the gold market -- are
undergoing greater intervention by central banks,
and the latest studious examination of this may
be Brian Bloom's essay, "Managed Markets," just
posted at Gold-Eagle.

Bloom charts the Dow Jones Industrial Average,

Former Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson describes America''s bankruptcy

Section: Daily Dispatches

South Africa 'Recycles' Graves for AIDS Victims

By Michael Wines
The New York Times
Thursday, July 29, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/international/africa/29durb.html

DURBAN, South Africa, July 23 -- At S Cemetery in Umlazi
Township, Innocent Gasa's handiwork is everywhere: endless
mounds of fresh red earth topped with headstones, unpainted

What''s to stop the Fed from winning the gold game if you can''t call their bluff?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Both Parties Get Blame for the Economic Mess

By John Crudele
New York Post
Tuesday, July 27, 2004

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272004/business/28134.htm

Pete Peterson may be the most qualified man to
discuss the American economy. Not only is Peterson
a former U.S. commerce secretary and chairman of the
New York Federal Reserve Bank, but he now chairs

There''s a big difference between ''managing'' markets and ''manipulating'' them

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:52a ET Saturday, July 31, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Not a lot of news this week so maybe the exchange
appended here will be of some interest.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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Dear Chris:

In a recent GATA dispatch you wrote:

"The gold price is almost entirely a matter of how
much gold the central banks want to dishoard, how

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