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Gold will rise with or without inflation, experts predict

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:18p ET Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Stanlie Hunt of the "SmartStox On-Line Talk Show"
turned his microphone over to GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy at the recent natural resources investment
conference in Calgary, which was sponsored by
Cambridge House, and the result was a little pep
talk that you can see and hear via this link at
Kitco:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hunt/may182004.html

Dan Denning: Fed is inflating everything except wages, which ensures deflation

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold prices seen shining in coming months

Analysts say a drop in U.S. dollar
would push bullion up even if inflation doesn't

ByAllan Robinson
Globe & Mail, Toronto
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/2004051
9/RGOLD19/TPBusiness/MoneyMarkets

Inflation or no inflation, gold prices are headed higher

Are the dollar rally and the gold plunge over?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Flash Bubbles

By Dan Denning
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
www.DailyReckoning.com

If you're like 99 percent of the world, you expect the
Fed to raise rates.

But somewhere along the way, in its perfect plan to
"reflate" the American economy and prevent a
Japan-style soft depression, the Fed made a fatal
miscalculation: It caused a simultaneous asset bubble
in stocks, bonds, commodities, housing, and real

Ted Butler: CFTC reply, while misleading, confirms the bullish case for silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:35p ET Monday, May 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

While the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has
rebuffed the attempts inspired by silver market analyst
Ted Butler to investigate suppression of the price of
silver, the issue surfaced over the weekend in a news
story on the Bloomberg wire, which was distributed
around the world and published in The Business Times

Bob Bishop: Elephant in the Room -- Carnage in the Financial Markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Theodore Butler
May 17, 2004

This was quite an eventful week for silver news.

First, the Silver Institute released its annual silver survey,
covering the world supply/demand situation for 2003. Allow me to give
you a quick summary. The world consumed, for the 15th consecutive
year, more silver than it produced, necessitating the draw down of
existing inventories by 72 million ounces. More than 1.5 billion

A pep talk from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:46p ET Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The latest analysis by Bob Bishop of Gold Mining
Stock Report, "Elephant in the Room -- Carnage
in the Financial Markets," has just been posted
at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/ind/GoldReport/may182004.html

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

Gold''s slide seen ending amid inflation worries; physical demand ''fantastic''

Section: Daily Dispatches

Fannie Mae faces more income issues

By Rex Crum
CBSMarketWatch
Saturday, May 15, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B31DC261A%2DBFD5%
2D4063%2D8788%2D8D6496968FD5%7D&siteid=mktw

In the latest criticism of Fannie Mae, this week's Barron's
says the mortgage finance behemoth is on shaky ground

China seen draining foreign exchange reserves to prop up state banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

Gold May Halt 7-Week Slide on U.S. Inflation Concern

By Claudia Carpenter
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, May 17, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a6zPrW3X8JpI

Gold may rise for the first week in eight on concern
that U.S. inflation will accelerate, according to a
Bloomberg survey of 36 traders, investors, and

Bloomberg story raises silver price suppression issue

Section: Daily Dispatches

Chinese Banks Face Crisis

By Nick Mathiason
The Observer, London
Sunday, May 16, 2004

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1217630,00.html

China's banking system faces a mounting crisis that
threatens to further destabilise the country's teetering
economy. Speculation is growing that the authorities

There''s no inflation ... unless you open your eyes

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jim Sinclair
Saturday, May 15, 2004
http://www.jsmineset.com/home.asp

Here I am reviewing a host of material from bearish gold
advisers and "trade everything always" hustlers and I can
no longer contain myself.

That's because on the right side of my desk is a report
on the COT (positions of large and assumed-to-be
commercial traders) and the Saturday edition of

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