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Ted Butler''s best yet: Buffett loses his silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060509/3/2kabr.html

BEIJING -- Some Chinese economists are urging Beijing to quadruple
its gold reserves to 2,500 tonnes from the current 600 tonnes
because the country foreign exchange reserves had become the world's
largest, an official industry newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Loonie only 9 cents away from parity with U.S. dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:29p ET Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler has written his best
column yet -- speculating that Warren Buffett lost his
silver playing derivatives games, analyzing Barrick
Gold's reduction of its hedge book, and raising the
possibility that the Comex is trying to run small
players out of the silver market before the explosion
comes. It's headlined "Buffett Loses His Silver" and

Jay Taylor tells a TV audience what''s really happening with gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

From The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?
feed=AP&Date=20060509&ID=5708194

TORONTO -- The Canadian dollar charged ahead more than 1 U.S. cent
Tuesday, reaching levels the "loonie" has not seen since January
1978.

The dollar closed up one cent to 90.87 U.S. cents and went as high

Gold market acts ''like someone big is trying to get in''

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:42p ET Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

For the most concise and insightful explanation
of what's really happening with gold and what may
happen, watch ROB-TV's interview today with Jay
Taylor, editor of J. Taylor's Gold and Technology
Stocks newsletter (www.miningstocks.com). Taylor
addresses the years of suppression of the gold
price by central bank dishoarding and the short

The Klondike gold rush may be on again

Section: Daily Dispatches

Beijing Whispers Push Gold to $700

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?
xml=/money/2006/05/10/cngold10.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/05/1
0/ixcitytop.html

Gold has surged to $700 an ounce for the first time in 26 years
after Chinese economists suggested the country should quadruple its

Vietnam would restrain gold price with plan for buying through banks

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:41p ET Saturday, May 6, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The New York Times story about Jim Sinclair
and GATA's Bill Murphy and James Turk, just
dispatched to you, has a great photograph
of Sinclair, our "Mister Gold." You can find
it here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/business/yourmoney/07gold.html?

Buffett says Bershire Hathaway has sold its silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

High Local Gold Price Prompts Rethink

From Vietnam News Agency, Hanoi
Sunday, May 6, 2006

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01BUS060506

HANOI -- In the face of rising domestic gold prices that exceed
world gold prices, the country's banks are planning to sell gold
under a new system, according to the deputy director of the Vietnam

Andy Mukherjee: Asia is getting ready to dump the dollar peg

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:12p ET Sunday, May 7, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Corp. is reported
to have sold its 130 million ounces of silver that
were purchased in 1997. You can find a story about it
at Resource Investor here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=19497

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

John Embry: Gold and silver on a tear

Section: Daily Dispatches

By The Associated Press
via the Globe and Mail, Toronto
Friday, May 5, 2006

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060505.wiraneuro
0505/BNStory/Business/home

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran took a step on Friday toward establishing an
oil market denominated in euros, a plan analysts described as highly

Sunday NYTimes features Jim Sinclair and GATA''s Bill Murphy and James Turk

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:13p ET Saturday, May 6, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment strategist,
John Embry, has written a new essay for Investor's
Digest of Canada, "Gold and Silver on a Tear," taking a
well-justified crack at the ever-wrong Jessica Cross of
Virtual Metals and assigning some well-earned praise to
silver market analyst Ted Butler. You can find Embry's

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