Daily Dispatches

7:20p ET Sunday, November 21, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold &
Money Report, founder of GoldMoney.com,
and consultant to GATA, has analyzed the
World Gold Council's new bullion fund on
the New York Stock Exchange and found
that it provides no assurance that there is
really any gold behind its shares. Indeed,
Turk finds, the bullion fund acknowledges

12:24a ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

This AP story printed in the Miami Herald
last week uses the natural gas market to
raise the same questions Ted Butler long
has been raising about the failure of
regulation of U.S. commodity markets in
regard to silver, where speculative
position limits have been inadequate or
not enforced. But at least some big
customers in the gas market are complaining

By Dan Ackman
Forbes
Monday, November 22, 2004

http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/11/22/cx_da_1122topnews.html

On Friday in Frankfurt, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan hinted, without actually predicting, that
the dollar was getting weaker. On Sunday in Berlin,
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said at the Group

5:35p ET Monday, November 22, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Another journalist from MineWeb has gone off on
his own to start a mining industry news Internet
site, this one with emphasis on Africa. He's
David McKay and the site is MiningMX.com. Their
first home page has a big story about South
African mining entrepreneur Brett Kebble, who
was, incidentally (though it is not mentioned