Daily Dispatches

12:16a ET Thursday, January 30, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's an interesting report at CBSMarketWatch by
Chris Plummer, the site's personal finance editor,
about those ripoff coin commercials you may have
seen on late-night television. For goodness' sake, buy
gold and silver coins and bullion -- it's the best
revenge against gold's and silver's enemies -- but
research your dealer first and get references. The

9:49p ET Thursday, January 30, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The most successful mutual fund manager in the world,
John Embry, vice president of equities for RBC Global
Investment Management and manager of Royal Bank
of Canada's precious metals fund, sounded exactly
like GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in a long interview on
national television in Canada this week.

Embry was interviewed on ROB-TV's quot;Market Callquot;

10:51p ET Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Barrick Gold says it will sue Blanchard amp; Co.
for libel in Canada for statements connected
to Blanchard's anti-trust complaint against
Barrick in federal court in the United
States. The Reuters story about Barrick's
threat is appended here.

If Canadian libel law remotely resembles U.S.
libel law, or has any fairness to it at all,

12:25a Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Vancouver and the Vancouver Resources Investment
Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House, could
not have been more welcoming to GATA, especially
since the conference, held at the city's convention
center, was right around the corner from Howe Street
and the Sinclair Centre, which, we fancied, soon
will be renamed for our heroes Reg and Jim,