Daily Dispatches

AN UNLIKELY CONSPIRACY,
AN ENTIRELY LIKELY SWINDLE

By Doug Casey
a href=http://www.dailyreckoning.comhttp://www.dailyreckoning.com/a
May 16, 2001

Reviewing lawsuits isn't exactly my favorite form of recreation.
But I've recently been taken to task for not taking seriously a
lawsuit filed on Dec 7, 2000 by one Reginald Howe in U.S.
District Court in Massachusetts.

The suit names, among others, Alan Greenspan, the U.S.

By Ilja Graulich
Business Day, South Africa
a href=http://www.bday.co.zahttp://www.bday.co.za/a
May 14, 2001

They are the $289 Club: power brokers who held the gold
price to exactly $289/oz on the last trading days of
1997, 1998, and 1999. So says the Gold Anti-Trust
Action Committee (GATA). (For the record, according to
the London Bullion Market Association, the prices were
$289, $287, and $290 respectively.)

MIDAS COMMENTARY FOR MAY 14, 2001

By Bill Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
May 14, 2001

Gold $268.30 up 30 cents
Silver $4.34 up 1 cent

Here's a bombshell from Bob Chapman that fits in perfectly
with the information you have been getting from Midas for
the past four weeks or so. Bob, who is a big GATA supporter
and editor of the International Forecaster, sent us the
following even before he published it in his own newsletter:

12:13a ET Sunday, May 13, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a big article published last week in the
Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Germany -- the South German
News, a major German newspaper. Many thanks to the
friend who forwarded it and the friends arranged its
translation.

I think you'll get from this article and others the
sense that GATA is slowly breaking onto the world
stage, beginning to establish its point, but still a