Daily Dispatches

3:12p ET Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA doesn't necessarily think much of the essay
from Canada's National Post that is appended here,
but at least it shows that gold is becoming a
mainstream issue.

The essay's author wonders whether Fed Chairman
Alan Greenspan is hinting at a new gold standard.
GATA might argue that the United States went back
to the gold standard surreptitiously when it

5:30a PT Friday, January 24, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What's appended here seems awfully unusual -- an
open invitation to an imminent short squeeze in the
gold market, published in the Financial Times, no
less.

It would be a shame to miss such a party.

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

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Gold strengthens further on speculative buying

2:36p ET Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thom Calandra, editor of CBSMarketWatch, has new
commentary today interviewing GATA consultant
James Turk of the Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report
and GATA Chairman Bill Murphy about prospects for
the price of gold. At this hour you can find the
commentary at the lower right of the CBSMarketWatch
home page:

a href=http://cbs.marketwatch.comhttp://cbs.marketwatch.com/a

10:42p ET Thursday, January 16, 2003

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A friend asks for a chart comparing the performance
of the shares of hedged and unhedged gold mining
companies. We all have our favorite unhedged
companies, so maybe it is best to use the composite
index, the American Stock Exchange's Gold Bugs
index (quot;Basket of Unhedged Gold Stocksquot;), the HUI.
As for hedged companies, who else but the infamous