Daily Dispatches

10:28p ET Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

E-Gold's formal statement in response to the federal indictment of the company on charges of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money-transfer business has been posted at the company's Internet site here:

http://www.e-gold.com/letter3.html

The company denies everything. This case will be interesting.

Jailed 7 Years for Contempt,
Adviser Is Headed for Prison

By Michael de la Merced
The New York Times
Saturday, April 28, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/business/28financier.html?

A federal judge lifted a 7-year-old civil contempt sanction on the financial adviser Martin A. Armstrong yesterday, allowing him to begin serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud.

By Jorge Rueda
Associated Press
via Yahoo News
Monday, April 30, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_imf

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions.

8:40p ET Sunday, April 29, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Peter Schiff, president of Euro-Pacific Capital Inc. in Darien, Connecticut, continues his brave campaign to show that recent U.S. stock market gains are illusory, failing to keep up with prices of tangibles and services. His latest effort on this score is an essay titled "What Record High?," which can be found at GoldSeek here: