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Don''t worry, the dollar won''t crash....

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Hertling
Bloomberg News Service
Saturday, January 29, 2005

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=aAvDTJpsO1Nk&refer=home

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Bill Gates, the world's richest person
with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S.
dollar.

"I'm short the dollar," Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., told

Here''s what GATA sometimes forgets to tell you

Section: Daily Dispatches

.... Foreigners will just use their piles
of it to take ownership of the United States!

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Dollar's crucial role secure, experts say

By Kevin G. Hall
Knight-Ridder News Service
Kansas City Star
Saturday, January 29, 2005

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/10763405.htm?1c

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Global economic experts meeting in Switzerland

AngloGold Ashanti profit hit by higher costs, gold hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:43p ET Saturday, January 29, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

When it sends you news stories and commentaries,
please remember that GATA does not necessarily
endorse them. Sometimes they are dispatched
simply because they seem likely to be of interest,
or they may be like television news -- important
not for anything what they report but rather for
showing what the world is being told.

Jude Wanniski takes note of ''Confessions of an Economic Hit Man''

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eric Onstad
Reuters
Thursday, January 27, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh28789_2005-01-27_12-37-21_l27257712_newsml

JOHANNESBURG -- World No. 2 gold producer AngloGold
Ashanti Ltd. posted a 7 percent fall in adjusted fourth-quarter
operating profit as costs climbed and hedging dampened its

ECB director does not expect another 15% fall in dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:42p ET Saturday, January 29, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jude Wanniski has written about John Perkins' book,
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," which argues
that agencies like the International Monetary Fund
and World Bank now function mainly to exploit the
developing world on behalf of the United States.
You can find Wanniski's essay at Gold-Eagle here:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/wanniski012605.html

Germany backs British idea to use IMF gold for debt relief in poor countries

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:24p ET Thursday, January 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk -- founder of GoldMoney,
editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and
now co-author of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar"
-- was interviewed for a few minutes the other day
on the CNBC television program "Squawk Box." You can
watch it if your computer has a media player program.

Secret

Section: Daily Dispatches

From Reuters
Friday, January 28, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7469626

DAVOS, Switzerland -- Germany backed Britain's proposal
on Friday for the International Monetary Fund to write off
debts of poor countries by selling or revaluing part of its
gold reserves.

High prices fail to dent gold demand in India

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Patrick Hosking
The Times, London
Friday, January 28, 2005
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-1460595,00.html

One of the largest hoards of gold ever gathered outside
a central bank has been accumulated at a secret address
in London over the past few months.

Gold bars with a value of 1.55 billion are understood

In Davos, Bill Gates says he is short the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Prasenjit Bhattacharya
Dow Jones Newswires
Friday, January 28, 2005

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050128/15/3q5ye.html

NEW DELHI -- Indian consumers seem to have resigned
themselves to high gold prices and are no longer
postponing buying jewelry in the hope of prices falling
in the future.

"People have generally realized prices are not coming

Chinese economist says his country wants to diversify out of the dollar

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:30p ET Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Despite recent assurances to the contrary from the
U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. law still appears to
empower the president to seize gold and silver coins,
bullion, and shares in mining companies from private
citizens.

While the law may violate the U.S. Constitution's
prohibition against the government's taking private

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