Daily Dispatches

By Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
www.USAGold.com
Monday, August 22, 2005

That the government retains the power to confiscate gold has been
well-known to clients of this firm for some time. Gold ownership in
the United States is a privilege, not a right, and as distasteful as
that might seem, confiscation is a potential reality, like it or
not, so all prudent gold owners should incorporate into their

By Peter Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, August 22, 2005

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NEW YORK -- Gold bulls were snorting with rage and grinding their
teeth at the end of last week.

Record prices for oil and copper, unexpectedly high inflation

12:37p ET Sunday, August 21, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The fall dinner meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education will be of special interest to
gold's partisans, since its speakers will include Robert
A. Mundell, the economist who won the Nobel Prize
in 1999 for conceptualizing the euro; John Hathaway
of Tocqueville Asset Management, who runs the firm's
precious metals fund; and Marshall Auerback of the

12:11p ET Saturday, August 20, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The U.S. Government has the authority to prohibit the private
possession of gold and silver coin and bullion by U.S. citizens
during wartime, and, during wartime and declared emergencies, to
freeze their ownership of shares of mining companies, the Treasury
Department has told the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee.

But gold and silver advocates shouldn't feel too picked on. For the