Daily Dispatches

12:30a ET Monday, June 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a wonderful story from The Wall Street Journal
that, ever so tentatively and politely, illustrates the
vast potential of the big Wall Street financial houses
-- in this case, Goldman Sachs -- for rigging markets
and bestowing the most lucrative favors on certain
clients while ripping off less favored clients. It's a
reminder that financial houses can get bigger than the

10:24p ET Saturday, June 4, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sunday's New York Times Magazine has a long article
on gold, for which GATA was asked to and did provide
information. Unfortunately the article is mainly a lot
of attitudinizing with predictable emphasis on the
eccentricities of certain gold advocates. It's as if
the Times had set out to analyze the economic policy
of the Clinton administration and concentrated on

By Eduardo Porter
The New York Times
Sunday, June 5, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/business/yourmoney/05view.html?
th&emc=th

Guess who's paying for America's spending binge -- for the
ballooning credit card bills, the scramble for homes, the country's
gaping budgetary hole.

Poor countries have become the financiers of the United States,

11:02p ET Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold

Resource Investor has posted an edited transcript
of a debate between its editor, Tim Wood, and James
Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money
Report, founder of GoldMoney, and consultant to
GATA, on whether the gold market is manipulated.
The debate was held a week ago during the New
York Institutional Gold Conference. Audio of the