Daily Dispatches

8:27p ET Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst and GATA consultant Ted Butler argues in his new commentary that there never really was a "bubble" in commodities and there sure isn't one after the market action of the last few days, now that most speculative positions have been wiped out and the prospects for long positions are excellent. Butler's commentary is headlined "Extreme Liquidation" and you can find it at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here:

By Shamim Adam
Bloomberg News Service
Tuesday, October 3, 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aOgjMkgYz91w

SINGAPORE -- Global leaders must find a way to unravel lopsided trade and investment flows or risk a slump in the U.S. dollar that would create havoc for the world economy, Asian Development Bank Chief Economist Ifzal Ali said.

An international agreement along the lines of the 1985 Plaza Accord "on a bigger scale" is needed to unwind the imbalances that have resulted in the U.S. current account deficit swelling to a record $805 billion and surpluses in China, the rest of Asia, and Europe, Ali said in an interview in Tokyo.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Monday, October 2, 2006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/10/02/ccview...

Arrayed on one side of the commodity debate are the ivory-tower economists and perma-bears, all warning that the four-year boom is over -- with worse to come. On the other are the traders and specialists who live and breathe the stuff every day, convinced that the market is tighter across the spectrum of metals and energy than outsiders realise.

10:51a ET Sunday, Ocober 1, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, gets out his charts to dismiss suggestions that commodities are finished. In "The Commodity 'Cycle' Is Not Over," Turk writes:

"Both gold and silver have a long way to climb before the bull market that is driving all commodities higher breathes its last breath. The reason is simple. People are exiting the dollar, and they will continue to do so until the problems adversely affecting the dollar are fixed -- and no one is taking steps to do that."