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Chinese diversification into gold implies numbers that are ''too staggering''

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jim Avila
ABC News / "20/20"
December 17, 2004

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=336457&page=1

If you're shopping for gold jewelry -- or hoping to receive some --
this holiday season, you may end up paying for gold but getting
glorified tinsel. How can you be sure you're getting the real thing?

"20/20" went on a gold-buying spree -- with hidden cameras rolling --

Bundesbank''s executive committee is reported opposed to gold sales

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:31p ET Friday, December 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mexico's potential remonetization of silver,
as described by Hugo Salinas Price in the
essay distributed to you earlier today,
could be the decisive blow against the
suppression of the price of both gold and
silver. It would not only show that, given
a choice, people will choose better money and
that Gresham's law might be reversed, but it

''Helicopter money'' theorist likely to be president''s top economic adviser

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:29p ET Thursday, December 16, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

J. Kent Willis, president of AGAPI Financial and a longtime
metals trader, has posted at Gold-Eagle an entertaining
essay called "The Scary Part of the Gold Price Curve." It
may be most interesting for its echoing what another
longtime metals trader, Jim Sinclair, asserted the other
night at JSMineset.com: that the Comex market is becoming

Glamis says Goldcorp was first to suggest combining the companies

Section: Daily Dispatches

Fed Governor Would Chair
President's Economic Council

By Nell Henderson
Washington Post
Friday, December 17, 2004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2004Dec16.html

The White House, seeking a strong economic team
to craft and sell key features of its second-term
agenda, is considering appointing Federal Reserve

Mexico is getting close to remonetizing silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

Glamis Gold's McArthur Says
McEwen Wooed Him to Run Goldcorp

By Doug Alexander
Bloomberg News Service
Friday, December 17, 2004

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000082&sid=aBF.8Flb9vqE&refer=canada

TORONTO -- Glamis Gold Ltd. Chief Executive
Officer Kevin McArthur said he never expected
to make yesterday's $3.4 billion hostile bid for

Please publicize Salinas Price''s report on Mexico''s remonetization of silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p ET Friday, December 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Hugo Salinas Price -- businessman, philosopher,
and Mexican patriot -- describes in the essay
appended here the great progress being made in
Mexico toward the remonetization of silver. He
argues for what GATA has been arguing for
-- giving people a choice of money and making
money compete for people rather than the
other way round. That will be, as Salinas Price

Two longtime metals traders see Comex becoming a real market for delivering gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Stephen Labaton
The New York Times
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/business/16fannie.html

WASHINGTON -- The staff of the Securities and Exchange
Commission has ordered Fannie Mae, the nation's largest
buyer of mortgages, to restate its earnings over the last
four years after concluding that it had violated accounting

Foreign investment in U.S. declines; renewed focus in dollar''s weaknesses

Section: Daily Dispatches

By AFX News
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://www.fxstreet.com/nou/noticies/afx/noticia.asp?
pv_noticia=1103076985-9e32d306-02461

BEIJING -- China is seeing a gold-buying surge as a
hedge against the weakening dollar and negative real
interest rates, the South China Morning Post
reported, citing figures from the China Gold Society

Bob Bishop has antidote to gold gloom, and Chip Hanlon examines the ETF

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Richard Blackden and Joshua Krongold
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000103&sid=a5pZjdNjHDE8&refer=news_index

The dollar fell the most in almost a month against the
yen and dropped versus the euro on a report showing
purchases of securities in the U.S. increased in

Resource Investor takes another look at South African junior miner AfLease

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A couple more things worth checking tonight that
you might not find in your ordinary Internet
ramble....

* Bob Bishop of Gold Mining Stock Report has
a wonderful antidote to the gloom in the gold world,
noting that the weakness in gold shares lately is
very likely tax-loss selling that will pass. You can
find Bishop's commentary at GoldColony here:

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