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Treasury secretary was responding to GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

Sunday, January 9, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's a lot of gold news and GATA news in the latest
quot;Midasquot; dispatch of GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
to his subscribers at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com, and so
he has asked me to share it with you here.

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

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By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy

Scheme would deliver Ashanti to Barrick

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:35p EST Monday, January 10, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you'll see from the accompanying Bridge News
dispatch from January 8, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lawrence Summers indeed was responding directly
to GATA on Saturday in Boston when he denied that
U.S. gold reserves have been sold. The Reuters story
from Saturday that I sent to you earlier made us think
as much, but the Bridge News story made it explicit.

U.S. govt. starts responding to GATA questions

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:10p EST Saturday, January 8, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's campaign to get answers about United States
policy toward gold is having some success, as you'll
see from the attached Reuters story published today.

While U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
seems here to be almost pointedly ignoring GATA's
more crucial questions -- questions about the gold
DERIVATIVES market, rather than about the physical

Treasury secretary starts feeling the heat about gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30p EST Friday, January 7, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Yesterday I received a letter from the international
financial adviser Martin A. Armstrong, who is under
federal indictment on securities fraud charges and
who, you may remember, had some interesting
and cordial exchanges with me here last year. With
his permission, I share his letter with you below,
because it illustrates the difficulty of fighting both

Martin Armstrong knows too much; pray for him

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:45p EST Tuesday, January 4, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Photocopies of correspondence between the Bank
of England and Peter Hambro of Zoloto Mining Ltd.
in London have been posted at:

a href=http://www.gata.org/latest.htmlhttp://www.gata.org/latest.html/a

For some time now Hambro has been posing to
British government financial officials the same
sort of questions GATA has been posing to

Correspondence with Bank of England

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:05a EST Wednesday, December 29, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Reginald H. Howe, lawyer and former mining executive,
examines the prospects of a world financial order
totally disconnected from gold in this essay, quot;Interest
Rates: The Golden Connection.quot; Implied is a forecast
of hyperinflation for the United States and other nations
relying on the U.S. dollar.

Please post this as seems useful.

Interest rates: The golden connection

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:33a EST Saturday, December 25, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our good friend Arthur Hailey of novel-writing fame has
gotten himself and GATA into the National Post's
Financial Post section in his native Canada, striking
another blow for the gold cause. The story follows.
Please post it as seems useful.

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

Cambior reaches agreement with creditors

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:05p EST Wednesday, December 22, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The transcript of the interview done December 14
at www.kitco.com with GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot;
Murphy has been posted at Kitco. The address is:

a href=http://www.kitco.com/Murphy.htmhttp://www.kitco.com/Murphy.htm/a

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Canada''s National Post notes Hailey''s barb at Barrick

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30a EST Saturday, December 25, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a Canadian Press story about Cambior's digging
itself out of its hedging hole.

Merry Christmas from GATA, where we never sleep!

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

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Cambior restructures debt
while it scrambles to sell assets

MONTREAL, Dec. 23 (Canadian Press) -- Cambior Inc., a

Transcript of Murphy interview

Section: Daily Dispatches

11p EST Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Charles Peabody of Mitchell Securities, one of the few
financial analysts who called the rise in interest rates
exactly right this year, as well as the weakness of bank
stocks, has just recommended purchase of ... gold.

Peabody sees the Federal Reserve's Y2K timidity in the
face of inflation, cites the continued rise in interest

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