Daily Dispatches

1:30p ET Sunday, February 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA consultant James Turk, editor of the Freemarket
Gold & Money Report and founder of GoldMoney, has
posted new commentary. While it is titled "More Bounce
in the Dollar," it concludes that "nothing has changed
to reverse the dollar's long-term bear market." You can
find Turk's analysis in the "Founder's Commentary"

By Sumeet Desai and Stella Dawson
Reuters
Saturday, February 5, 2005

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7547048

LONDON -- The Group of Seven wealthy nations pledged to increase
Third World debt relief on Saturday but a deal struck after major
disagreements fell short of proposals floated by British finance

By Howard Ruff
The Ruff Times
February 2005
http://www.rufftimes.com

I recently got a phone call from a subscriber, David Homes. He is a
very sophisticated and significant gold investor. He has been
viewing with alarm the development of exchange-traded funds, or
ETFs. They will be touted more and more but he has some serious
reservations. I asked him to write an article. Read it carefully,

4:15p ET Saturday, February 5, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Over the last week or so there have been some references
to an essay written by Alan Greenspan for The Wall
Street Journal in 1981, four years after he left the
chairmanship of the President's Council of Economic
Advisers and six years before President Reagan
appointed him chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

The essay is appended here. It was titled "Can the