Daily Dispatches

By John Dizard
Financial Times
www.ft.com
October 11, 2002

In what is often called the quot;Talibanquot; or quot;fundamentalistquot;
wing of the goldbug movement, Barrick Gold is reviled
as the Great Satan, intent on driving down the gold
price through its derivatives activities, in league with
either the Federal Reserve, or the Illuminati, or both.

Barrick's position, with which I have agreed over the

Moody's cuts J.P. Morgan senior debt rating

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (Reuters) -- Moody's Investors Service
today cut J.P. Morgan Chase amp; Co.'s long-term debt
ratings, affecting about $42 billion of debt, reflecting
concern about the No. 2 U.S. banking company's
medium- and long-term business outlook.

Moody's cut J.P. Morgan's senior unsecured debt
one notch to quot;A1,quot; its fifth highest grade, from quot;Aa3,quot;

2:07a ET Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA welcomes a new corporate supporter,
Platinum Group Metals Ltd., which was
introduced to GATA by our friend Ron
Struthers of the Resource Stock Advisory
newsletter.

Ron has provided a brief description of
the company, which is appended below.

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

1:16a ET Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch appended here about
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm may explain a lot about
why Wall Street and its investment banks got
everything they wanted from the Senate
Banking Committee when Gramm was its
chairman. Lately he has been the committee's
ranking Republican minority member.

No doubt Senator Gramm will keep voting