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How many new jobs really?

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:45p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The previous dispatch about the GoldenSextant
Internet site should have noted that it is now
a joint effort of Reg Howe and another GATA
consultant, Robert K. Landis, who may be best
loved in the precious metals world for his
research into the hedge book of Barrick Gold.
Much of the material quoted in the previous
dispatch was actually Landis' work.

David Morgan comments on attempts to link gold with terrorism

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:27p ET Friday, May 7, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's some wonderfully contrarian analysis tonight
by Van R. Hoisington and Lacy H. Hunt of Hoisington
Investment Management of Austin, Texas. They note
that there is no documentation for most of the new
jobs cited in today's U.S. jobs report. Rather, the
number was, as with so many numbers in U.S.
government reports, simply contrived.

Even without Rothschild, the fix is still in

Section: Daily Dispatches

Pricing Gold but No Longer Standing on British Tradition

By Bernard Simon
The New York Times
Thursday, May 6, 2004

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Another piece of the British empire crumbled yesterday
when no one raised or lowered the Union Jack to set
the international price of gold.

Clif Droke: Fed is pumping so much into Wall Street that the market can''t crash

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:34a ET Thursday, May 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In quot;The Bears' Last Stand,quot; Gold Strategies Review editor
Clif Droke sounds a lot like GATA statistician Mike
Bolser, whose nightly analysis is quoted in Bill Murphy's
quot;Midasquot; commentary at LeMetropoleCafe.com. Bolser
says the Federal Reserve is providing enough money to
Wall Street to keep the Dow Jones Industrial Average on

James Turk: Dollar''s bear-market rally seems to be over

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:52a ET Thursday, May 6, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney proprietor James Turk, editor of The
Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report and consultant
to GATA, observes that a bear-market rally in
the dollar appears to be over. You can find his
analysis in the quot;Founder's Commentaryquot; box at
the top left of the GoldMoney home page here:

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Jim Sinclair: Don''t be fooled by chart painting as traders go long in gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

Same Old Story

By Jim Sinclair
Thursday, May 6, 2004

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News flash! It's the same old game being played.

Gold was firm in the U.S. overnight and as the COMEX
opening approached and the cash market shifted to COT,
market makers in the U.S. weakened gold into the open
and then by the grace of COT, COMEX traders moved it
lower.

Dow Jones story quotes Ted Butler on silver: Forget Buffett, think fundamentals

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jim Hawe
Dow Jones Newswires
Thursday, May 6, 2004

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TOKYO -- Is the world's second richest man turning
to silver again?

Recent comments by investor Warren Buffett have
added fuel to persistent rumors that the world's
wealthiest investor is looking to make another big
splash in the silver market.

Gold bear sees speculators fleeing; gold bulls cite dollar weakness

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Fiona Ortiz
Reuters
Thursday, May 6, 2004

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LIMA, Peru -- Analysts at a gold conference in Peru disagreed
strongly on Thursday over where the price of gold was headed,
with one expert predicting a sharp drop to $350-$360 per ounce
while others said it was on its way up to the $450 per ounce

World Gold Council''s bullion fund reports strong demand

Section: Daily Dispatches

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LIMA, Peru, May 6 (Reuters) -- Gold Bullion Securities saw
renewed demand for its new investment instrument in April,
after it relaunched a slightly revamped version of its
shares, each of which represents a tenth of an ounce of
gold, a GBS official said on Thursday.

Ted Butler: Silver dealers can win all the time only through collusion

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
May 4, 2004

The latest Commitments of Traders Report confirmed
the complete flush-out of the 100,000 tech fund gold
longs that were added just before the break in prices.
While tech funds were also flushed out in silver, it was
not as dramatic as in gold.

What was dramatic in silver was the actual fall in price.
Over a 13-trading day period, silver fell from just over $8

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