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Today''s gold market commentary by Bill Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2000-02-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:15p EST Monday, February 7, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Here are two outstanding essays on the recent activity
in the gold market by Frank Veneroso and John Brimelow
of Veneroso Associates, probably the world's most
expert analysts of gold supply. The essays are prefaced
with some background about Veneroso and his firm.
They conclude that only government manipulation of the
gold market explains the price action, and that the
Greenspan, Treasury playing games with gold
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2000-02-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:15p EST Monday, February 8, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy tonight dispatched
this brief commentary to his subscribers at
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com and graciously, again, has
allowed me to pirate his work to you.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
Barrick covers the only way it can: on paper
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2000-02-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:30p EST Monday, February 8, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The foremost analyst of world gold supplies, Frank A.J.
Veneroso of Veneroso Associates, addresses the question
of government manipulation of the gold market in the
essay that follows. He concludes that such manipulation
very well may be going on and that it will make the explosion
of the gold price even more violent.
GATA is grateful to Veneroso for his permission to
Who sold Barrick those calls?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2000-02-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1a EST Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If you're not sick yet of analysis of Monday's
developments in gold, you may enjoy this interesting
post by the always interesting Ted Butler at
www.kitco.com. Butler's analysis has paralleled GATA's
for some time. Here he looks closer at Barrick's hedge
book revision than I've seen anyone do so far.
Please post this as seems useful.
The Greatest Con: The Rubin Dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2000-02-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches2:20a EST Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Reginald H. Howe, Harvard-trained lawyer and former
mining executive, and sole proprietor of
www.GoldenSextant.com, has analyzed Barrick Gold's
announcement Monday about its hedging, and observes
that the company bought only quot;virtualquot; gold, paper gold
-- and well may have done so with the help of the U.S.
Treasury Department's Exchange Stabilization Fund.
The Year of the Golden Dragon
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2000-02-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11p EST Friday, February 4, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
There's a great compliment for GATA Chairman Bill
quot;Midasquot; Murphy in the commentary of Rick Ackerman,
who writes the quot;Market Directionsquot; column in the Sunday
San Francisco Examiner and runs his own web site of
financial commentary, www.blackboxforecasts.com.
What follows below is an excerpt from Ackerman's
Gold soars when bullion dealers get into trouble
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2000-02-04 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:25p EST Thursday, February 3, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA can't say much more about the following Reuters
story than quot;Amen!quot;
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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GOLD FIELDS SLAMS INDUSTRY HEDGE ADDICTION
By Darren Schuettler
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 3 (Reuters) -- Gold Fields Ltd, the
world's second biggest gold producer, said on Thursday
Will Barrick curtail hedging on Monday?
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2000-02-04 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesNoon EST Friday, February 4, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Here's a bulletin from GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot;
Murphy to his subscribers at
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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11:30a EST Friday, February 4, 2000
By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
The pulse of the gold market has really picked up.
Black Box Forecasts salutes Midas Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2000-02-04 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:10p EST Friday, February 4, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Here's some brief but delicious news and commentary
dispatched tonight by GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot;
Murphy to his subscribers at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com.
Please post this as seems useful.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
Do you know a good list of gold companies?
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2000-02-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:55a EST Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Reginald H. Howe, Harvard-trained lawyer, former mining
executive, and proprietor of www.GoldenSextant.com, has
summarized brilliantly the analysis of the gold market and
its likely manipulators that GATA and its chairman, Bill
quot;Midasquot; Murphy of www.LeMetropoleCafe.com, have been
making dispatch by dispatch for months now.