Daily Dispatches

Is the Luster Returning?

After a decades-long slide,
gold may be telling us something

By Rick Lombardi
Barron's
June 2000

(Charts not reproduced here)

In the 104 years since a defiant William Jennings Bryan
delivered his fiery quot;cross of goldquot; speech before the
Democratic National Convention in Chicago, not much has
changed. Gold's role as an economic linchpin, a store
of value and medium of exchange remains hotly debated.

10:20p EDT Thursday, June 22, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and Reg Howe
of www.GoldenSextant.com on their way to the
Financial Times gold conference in Paris,
I've been assigned to stay behind to answer
the mail, take out the trash, and keep the
computer servers running here in East Bumpkin.

So in the absence of my betters I'll take the
liberty of testing the computers by sending

12:50p EDT Thursday, June 22, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold Newsletter's special edition for June has a
very helpful article about GATA by Gold Newsletter
Editor Brien Lundin, which I've taken the liberty to
append here. Thanks to supporters like Gold
Newsletter, our message about manipulation of the
gold market is getting around the world.

Please post this as seems useful.

12:45a EDT Monday, June 19, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Think for a minute before you get all agitated by the
proposal, made last week at the conference of the
International Precious Metals Institute in
Williamsburg, Va., by an economist for the U.S. Federal
Reserve Board, Dale Henderson, that all central banks
should sell all their gold.

Some argue that Henderson would not have made such a