Daily Dispatches

By Dr. Richard S. Appel
www.financialinsights.org
Thursday, December 9, 2004

Most of the below commentary was written prior
to Wednesday's $15 gold price collapse. However,
it still remains applicable and further strengthens
my belief that important buying points are
approaching for both gold and the gold equities.

The current disconnect between the price action
of gold and the major and junior gold stocks has

Argentina's Debt Museum Is Set
To Tackle Woeful Financial Past

By Suzelle Tempero
of Dow Jones Newswires
The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, December 8, 2004

BUENOS AIRES -- When tourists in Buenos Aires tire
of the usual museum fare of tango, Evita, and Argentine
art, they can delve into a more academic topic: the
country's staggering external debt.

Set to open in March at the University of Buenos Aires,

10:42p ET Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Resource Investor's Tim Wood examines the questions
about the security of the gold in the World Gold
Council's exchange-traded bullion fund and finds
that James Turk and GATA have landed an unlikely
ally in the financial establishment: Mitsui's Andy
Smith, never considered much of a friend of gold as
an investment.

Smith calls the bullion fund "a paper claim based on

11:33p ET Monday, December 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you've already helped GATA, please discard this
dispatch. (You know who you are, R.McD., J.G., D.S.,
J-P.S., H.B., M.K., M.R., J.P., H.S.P., and the
rest. ...)

If you have NOT helped GATA yet, please read on and
consider helping us now.

We're not very attentive to fund-raising and thus too
often have relied again and again on the same people.