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Jim Puplava reviews the illusions about to crash down on the United States

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:26a ET Saturday, May 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Richard Russell, editor of Dow Theory Letters, joins
those who wonder how a country built on a fantastic
level of debt can survive even a small increase in
interest rates. His commentary is at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/GoldReport/may072004.html

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Jim Sinclair: The gold market is war, and the first casualty is truth

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:31a ET Saturday, May 8, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Once again Jim Puplava of FinancialSense.com puts
the big picture together better than anyone else,
this time with a long but brilliant, fact-packed,
and wonderfully illustrated essay titled
"Illusions" in his "Storm Watch" series.

Puplava shows what is really happening to the
United States: the pileup of arrogant excess

Fed official warns that housing finance giants pose systemic risk

Section: Daily Dispatches

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CHICAGO, May 6 (Reuters) -- St. Louis Federal Reserve
President William Poole on Thursday called for the
elimination of government lines of credit to mortgage
finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce
risks to the U.S. financial system in the event of a

Oh no, not again -- Mining industry leaders urge another jewelry promotion

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:43p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sorry to bum you out on another horrible day of another
horrible week, but the appended Reuters report about
the gold conference in Peru shows that we're still up
against not only the world financial establishment but
also the mining industry itself.

Here we have two industry leaders proclaiming that
the industry's goal should be to spur jewelry demand

AngloGold CEO sees industry consolidation yielding to deals with juniors

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Sprott Gold & Precious Metals Fund
Business Report, South Africa
Sunday, May 2, 2004
www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=422083

1. Global currency debasement. The US dollar is
fundamentally and technically very weak and could
fall dramatically. However, other countries are very
reluctant to see their currencies appreciate and are
resisting the fall of the dollar. We should therefore

GoldenSextant.com gets improvements and the report of the U.S. Gold Commission

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jude Webber
Reuters
Friday, May 7, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5078101

LIMA, Peru -- Fresh from its $1.55 billion takeover of
Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields last month, the world's No.
2 bullion producer AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. now reckons
that the era of big mergers is over and that deals with

Inflation soon will become the focus of the investment world and drag gold up

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:47p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant Reginald H. Howe, proprietor of
GoldenSextant.com, has made improvements at his
Internet site and has added the full text of
the March 1982 report of the U.S. Gold
Commission.

Howe prefaces the report with an insightful
commentary of his own, remarking, in part:

"Today, with gold long since banished to the

GoldenSextant.com is now a joint effort of GATA consultants Howe and Landis

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:53p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

No, don't ask your doctor if cyanide is right for you.
Instead, check out Peter Grandich, who argues, as
Jim Sinclair has been arguing, that inflation soon
will become the investment world's focus and drag
gold up. Grandich's commentary has just been
posted at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Grandich/may072004.html

How many new jobs really?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:45p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The previous dispatch about the GoldenSextant
Internet site should have noted that it is now
a joint effort of Reg Howe and another GATA
consultant, Robert K. Landis, who may be best
loved in the precious metals world for his
research into the hedge book of Barrick Gold.
Much of the material quoted in the previous
dispatch was actually Landis' work.

David Morgan comments on attempts to link gold with terrorism

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:27p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's some wonderfully contrarian analysis tonight
by Van R. Hoisington and Lacy H. Hunt of Hoisington
Investment Management of Austin, Texas. They note
that there is no documentation for most of the new
jobs cited in today's U.S. jobs report. Rather, the
number was, as with so many numbers in U.S.
government reports, simply contrived.

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