Daily Dispatches

12:36a ET Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James R. Cook, proprietor of GATA supporter
Investment Rarities in Minneapolis and longtime
sponsor of silver analyst Ted Butler's
commentaries, has published his own
commentary this week, substituting for Butler,
who is on vacation, and taking some credit
for Butler as the original illuminator of the
scam of precious metals leasing, by virtue of

10:06p ET Monday, August 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What could be nicer than a few autumn days in
Toronto?

(Who's the wiseguy who answered: A long,
leisurely retirement in Saint Maarten?)

Well, the path to a leisurely retirement in Saint
Maarten -- or anywhere else, for that matter --
may run through Toronto on Sunday and Monday,
October 3 and 4, when Cambridge House will

Sons of Gwalia goes into administration

From the Australian Financial Review
Monday, August 30, 2004
http://afr.com/articles/2004/08/30/1093717888857.html

By the Australian Associated Press

Perth-based tantalum and gold company Sons of
Gwalia said today it had appointed voluntary
administrators after failing to get its

3:38p ET Monday, August 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Dow Jones Newswires reports today in the story
appended here that J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs,
and Citigroup are among the big creditors in
the collapse of Australia's second-largest gold
mining company, Sons of Gwalia, a leader in
the practice of hedging gold mine production.

That's what hedging gets you in the future
of gold.