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Schedule of GATA events at New Orleans Investment Conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

By John Dizard
Financial Times
www.ft.com
October 11, 2002

In what is often called the quot;Talibanquot; or quot;fundamentalistquot;
wing of the goldbug movement, Barrick Gold is reviled
as the Great Satan, intent on driving down the gold
price through its derivatives activities, in league with
either the Federal Reserve, or the Illuminati, or both.

Barrick's position, with which I have agreed over the

Barrick''s gold hedging questioned in Financial Times

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:36p ET Thursday, October 10, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mineweb.com tonight has a great interview with our friend
John Hathaway of Tocqueville Gold Fund, who is very good
at putting distractions aside and getting down to basics.
You can find the interview here:

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Mineweb interviews Tocqueville Gold Fund''s John Hathaway

Section: Daily Dispatches

Moody's cuts J.P. Morgan senior debt rating

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (Reuters) -- Moody's Investors Service
today cut J.P. Morgan Chase amp; Co.'s long-term debt
ratings, affecting about $42 billion of debt, reflecting
concern about the No. 2 U.S. banking company's
medium- and long-term business outlook.

Moody's cut J.P. Morgan's senior unsecured debt
one notch to quot;A1,quot; its fifth highest grade, from quot;Aa3,quot;

Platinum Group Metals Ltd. becomes supporter of GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:16a ET Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch appended here about
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm may explain a lot about
why Wall Street and its investment banks got
everything they wanted from the Senate
Banking Committee when Gramm was its
chairman. Lately he has been the committee's
ranking Republican minority member.

No doubt Senator Gramm will keep voting

Another downgrade for Morgan Chase

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:07a ET Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA welcomes a new corporate supporter,
Platinum Group Metals Ltd., which was
introduced to GATA by our friend Ron
Struthers of the Resource Stock Advisory
newsletter.

Ron has provided a brief description of
the company, which is appended below.

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

(No subject)

Section: Daily Dispatches

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Wall Street is still advising
investors to buy shares of ailing companies even as
they file for bankruptcy, according to a study
released on Monday.

Weiss Ratings, a market research firm, said it found
that 46 of the 62 brokerage houses covering companies
that filed for bankruptcy between May 1 and Aug. 31
continued to recommend buying or holding those
shares as the companies filed Chapter 11.

Wall Street rewards Senator Gramm for years of loyal subservience

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:16a ET Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Reuters dispatch appended here about
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm may explain a lot about
why Wall Street and its investment banks got
everything they wanted from the Senate
Banking Committee when Gramm was its
chairman. Lately he has been the committee's
ranking Republican minority member.

No doubt Senator Gramm will keep voting

Hurry up and buy these shares before the company goes out of business

Section: Daily Dispatches

J.P. Morgan set to fire 4,000 bankers: report

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NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) -- J.P. Morgan
Chase amp; Co. the second-largest U.S. banking
company, is set to fire 4,000 of its 20,000
investment bankers later this month,
according to a published report.

The cuts will be made across the bank

Only 16,000 more to go at J.P. Morgan Chase

Section: Daily Dispatches

2a ET Thursday, October 3, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Plenty more coverage of the Denver gold conference
at Mineweb, including long interviews with four
important mining company executives: Anglogold's
Bobby Godsell, Barrick's Randall Oliphant, Golden
Star's Peter Bradford, and Gold Fields' Ian
Cockerill. You can find it all here:

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Interviews with Godsell, Oliphant, Bradford, and Cockerill

Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's some great coverage of the Denver gold
conference at TheMiningWeb.com, now
Mineweb.com. You can find it here:

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CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

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