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CFTC official who answered silver market manipulation complaints resigns
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-06-08 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFed Says It Will Act as Need on Inflation
By Tim Ahmann
Reuters
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=215SD3WZQNLW0CRBAE
OCFEY?type=businessNews&storyID=5374657
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve will do "what is
required" to keep inflation in check if the forecast
Why would anyone want to suppress the price of silver?
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-06-08 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:22p ET Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
No sooner had this official of the U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission been compelled by
Ted Butler's agitation to respond to hundreds of
complaints about manipulation of the silver
market than he resigns for a private-sector job.
Makes you wonder if maybe he didn't like what
he just had to do in denying any possibility that
Oh, Canada! Barrick wins $125,000 libel award against homeless man
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-06-07 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:04p ET Sunday, June 6, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Jason Hommell is back from the New York gold show and
reports in his new silver share valuation commentary
that three silver mining companies have joined Silver
Standard Resources in holding some of their cash
balances in metal: Sterling Mining, which took over
the Sunshine Mining property in Idaho; Nevada Pacific
Gold; and Endeavour Gold.
Gold show suggests a bottom; and is Fed putting money into mortgage agencies?
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-06-07 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesThe company may need it for its defense in
the Blanchard case!
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Gold Firm Libelled on Web Sites, Court Rules
By Tracey Tyler
Toronto Star
Saturday, June 5, 2004
In a decision legal experts say will "scare the hell"
out of Internet users and set back free speech, the
Ontario Court of Appeal has ordered a homeless
Vancouver man to pay $125,000 in damages for
libelling a gold mining corporation on several Web
James Turk: The week ends badly for the dollar
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-06-06 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Becky Kramer
Spokane Spokesman-Review, Washington
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/allstories-news-story.asp?
date=060204&ID=s1525515
Mark J. Lundeen says he's not a believer in conspiracies,
but the Minneapolis investor does admit to suspicions
about the price of silver.
In 1994, the retired Navy man began buying up mining
Jason Hommell: Three more silver miners hold cash in metal
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-06-06 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1:43p ET Sunday, June 6, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GoldMoney proprietor James Turk, editor of the
Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant
to GATA, has updated his U.S. dollar charts and
produced new commentary, "The Week Ends
Badly for the Dollar." He forecasts a continued
decline.
You can find Turk's analysis in the "Founder's
Commentary" box at the top left of the GoldMoney
Malaysia''s ex-PM calls for gold-based trading currency for East Asia
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2004-06-05 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:25p ET Thursday, June 3, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
MineWeb's Tim Wood and Dorothy Kosich have filed at
least six reports from the New York Institutional
Gold Conference, including an especially interesting
one about the attempt of Golden Star Resources and
Couer d'Alene to break up the IAMGold/Wheaton River
merger. You can find these reports on the MineWeb
home page here:
Spokane Spokesman-Review takes note of the silver price suppression issue
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2004-06-05 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesThe Star, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Thursday, June 3, 2004
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?
file=/2004/6/3/nation/8124886&sec=nation
TOKYO -- Japan should stop trying to prop up the U.S.
dollar and instead make the yen the trading currency
of East Asia, said Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
While noting that it was understandable for Japan to
Program for June 13-14 Vancouver conference announced
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-06-03 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Jim Sinclair
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Oil is a weapon of economic destruction in this Third
World War, and the U.S. dollar is a prime target of
those who oppose us.
Is the Federal Reserve expecting catastrophe?
From Robert McHugh's monetary forecast of May 28,
which was echoed by Richard Russell today:
"Let me just say from the outset that the Federal
MineWeb has the New York gold conference covered
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2004-06-03 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches8:35p ET Thursday, June 3, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The program for the 2004 World Gold, PGM, and Diamond
Conference, to be held Sunday and Monday, June 13 and
14, at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre,
was announced today, and it has GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy speaking in prime time -- 6 p.m. Sunday.
Murphy will join GATA's Ed Steer and Mike Bolser and
your secretary/treasurer in a panel discussion at 3 p.m.