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What is the value of a dollar when most prices are phony and currencies rigged?

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:38p ET Monday, February 16, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two commentaries of special interest today at
CBSMarketWatch....

John Brimelow, stockbroker and regular contributor
to LeMetropoleCafe.com, writes that gold seems
to be performing the Indian rope trick, continuing
to rise amid disbelief. You can find his commentary
here:

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Embry represents the good guys in ROB-TV debate on markets Wednesday

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Hathaway, Manager
Tocqueville Gold Fund
February 14, 2004
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In a Jan. 4 speech this year, Federal Reserve Governor
Ben Bernanke opined that the rising gold price was
caused by terrorism. Geopolitical tensions, he said,
quot;account for the bulk of the recent increase in the real

Special offer for GATA supporters to obtain hundred-ounce silver bars

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:49p ET Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA supporter John Embry, president of Sprott Asset
Management in Toronto and manager of the Sprott Gold
and Precious Minerals Fund, will appear live on Report
on Business Television in Canada at 12:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday in something of a debate with Brian Acker,
president and CEO of the Acker Finley brokerage
house in Toronto.

Market-rigging verdict against beef packer is encouraging for Blanchard case

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA is in the market-liberation business, not the
investment advice business. But when liberating a
market also presents an investment opportunity,
GATA may be obliged to point it out. So appended
is an excerpt from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's
quot;Midasquot; commentary tonight at LeMetropoleCafe.com,
reporting a special offer made to GATA supporters

Ted Butler: NYMEX/COMEX start to sweat, so let''s keep the pressure on

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Saturday, February 14, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you'll see from the Reuters stories below, Germany
again is talking about selling gold reserves, just hours
after there were strong indications of intervention in
the currency markets to weaken the euro against the
dollar. These are often reliable signals of dangerous
stress in the currency markets and the need of the
central banks to scare gold buyers.

Bill Fleckenstein: The seven stages of a dollar crisis

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Theodore Butler

When I first read the following press release from the
NYMEX/COMEX I was angry. Then I realized that this
was a time for pushing ahead in a professional and
logical manner, as the stakes were too important.

First, here's the press release.

* * *

Exchange Expands Retail Customer Protection

NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2004 -- The New York Mercantile Exchange
Inc. today established additional retail customer protections

At CBSMarketWatch, gold''s Indian rope trick and a report on bullion funds

Section: Daily Dispatches

The seven stages of a dollar crisis --

... 'Experts' simplistically tout a weak dollar
as good news. No wonder many regular folks
are unaware that its dramatic decline could
spell real trouble.

By Bill Fleckenstein

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Along the way to a full-blown crisis, the steps leading up to

Gold''s rise and dollar''s fall are actually accelerating, GoldMoney''sTurk reports

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Turk, Editor
The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report
Letter No. 339
February 9, 2004
Copyright 2004, The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report
Republished by permission

New Hampshire made history this week. It is the first state
since President Roosevelt's gold confiscation in 1933 to
attempt the praiseworthy goal of returning to constitutional
money -- gold and silver coin. I am honored that I had a

Important commentaries by Jim Sinclair

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:40a ET Saturday, February 14, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GoldMoney proprietor James Turk, editor of The
Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report, has done
more great technical analysis of the gold price
and the dollar. With charts he shows that
despite the rude treatment of gold Friday, its
upward trend is actually accelerating, just as
the dollar's downward trend is.

You can find Turk's analysis in the quot;Founder's

Time again for central banks to scare gold buyers

Section: Daily Dispatches

10a ET Saturday, February 14, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Jim Sinclair posted important commentaries Friday,
particularly quot;Saved by the Weekendquot; and quot;Gold
Market Summary.quot; You can find them here after
scrolling down a little:

a href=http://www.jsmineset.com/http://www.jsmineset.com//a

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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