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Weber Says Government Should Respect
Bundesbank's Competence on Gold

By Christian Baumgaertel
Bloomberg News Service
Sunday, November 13, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000100&sid=aHACZ5Vd0xdk&refer=germany

Bundesbank President Axel Weber said the German central bank wasn't
involved in plans by the new finance minister to sell gold and any

German govt. again threatens to sell gold; Bundesbank wouldn''t do it last time

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:25p ET Thursday, November 10, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Jon A. Nones searches for
the motives of the Silver Users Association
and the Silver Institute amid the conflict
over the proposal for an exchange-traded fund
in silver bullion. You can find his report here:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=14479

Mexican congressmen carry silver liberation message to Latin American conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

Germany Considers Gold,
Railway Sales to Ease Record Deficit

By Brian Parkin
Bloomberg News Service
Saturday, November 12, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000100&sid=ayRHxsBnT5XY&refer=germany

BERLIN -- German Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel's new government
may sell some gold reserves and a stake in the state-owned railway

James Sinclair: Central bank gold sales actually create investment interest

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Hugo Salinas Price
Mexican Civic Association for Silver
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Mexican congressmen are going to Sao Paolo, Brazil, for a meeting of
the Latin American Parliament beginning Nov. 24.

Among the congressmen in the delegation is a group from the three
main political parties in Mexico who, though totally at odds on
other matters, will make a presentation about re-establishing silver

John Crudele: How hedge funds manipulate the market at month''s end

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:12p ET Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Tonight's "Mogambo Guru" column by Richard Daughty,
the self-proclaimed "angriest guy in economics," has
favorable references to GATA, our silver market
consultant Ted Butler, and two reports dispatched to
you by GATA recently -- the Au Capital letter and a
pro-gold story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the

Resource Investor: The Silver Institute vs. the Silver Users Association

Section: Daily Dispatches

How Hedge Funds Move the Markets

By John Crudele
New York Post
Thursday, November 10, 2005
http://www.nypost.com/business/31037.htm

Hedge funds are causing the stock market to be predictably good at
the very end and the very beginning of months.

You've been reading a lot about this phenomenon in this column.

But until I got Rabo Securities to actually do the research, my

Ted Butler: Wilma, Refco, and The New York Times

Section: Daily Dispatches

Silver Group Fires Bullet at ETF;
Proposed Barclays Fund Faces Opposition;
Launch in Doubt

By John Spence
CBSMarketWatch
Monday, November 7, 2005

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B41580216%2DF0B3%
2D419A%2DB4F2%2DA152FC4278F9%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

BOSTON -- A group representing companies that use silver for

Mogambo Guru refers favorably to GATA and our growing list of friends

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:29p ET Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Silver market analyst Ted Butler said the other day that
he was going to take a break from his weekly commentary
but he has written "Wilma, Refco, and The New York
Times" and gotten it posted at GoldSeek/SilverSeek here:

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1131480748.php

Even a pro-metals report nudges investors into derivatives

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:58p ET Sunday, November 6, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Thanks to our friend D.A.K. in Edmonton, Alberta, for
noting the error in the London Telegraph story dispatched
to you earlier this evening. The Telegraph story said that
European central banks had just reported selling 398
million ounces of gold. It apparently should have said
398 million euros' worth of gold, or, as GATA consultant

CBSMarketWatch notes attempts to block exchange-traded fund in silver

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:02a ET Monday, November 7, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

An Associated Press story generally supportive
of investment in precious metals snuck into
Sunday's Washington Post, and it is appended.
But you may get a laugh out of the story's
disclosure of still more paper derivatives to
invest in -- "structured notes" that purport
to track the prices of various industrial

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