Daily Dispatches

1:50a Saturday, October 2, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's Friday night's quot;Midasquot; dispatch from GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy to his subscribers at
www.lemetropolecafe.com. Because of its importance,
I'm sending the whole thing to you and urge you to post
it wherever you can and bring it to the attention of
political authorities and gold investors everywhere.

It appears that the manipulators that have driven the

9:15p EDT Thursday, September 30, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's an essay by GATA's vice chairman and treasurer,
John D. Meyer, founder of Berkshire Financial Advisors
in Great Barrington, Mass., and a 30-year veteran of
the money-management business, posted at
www.lemetropolecafe.com.

Better than anything else I've seen, John's essay
explains the meaning of the decision by the European

11:30p EDT Friday, October 1, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The gold carry trade and the short squeeze are finally
news for the mainstream press. Here's a fine article
from the Sydney Morning Herald for Saturday, October 2.
Those of us on the other side of the planet get to read
it a day before publication!

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

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1:40a EDT Saturday, October 2, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What to make of the development reported in the
following dispatch from the Dawn newspaper in
Karachi, Pakistan, the closing of the local gold
market?

One might think that, out on the fringes of the planet,
the physical market for gold is overcoming the paper
market for gold -- that, at the greater distances from
the market manipulators and the paper mongers of