Hi Peter and thanks.
  Here is a heads up :-)
  9:45p ET Monday, February 26, 2001
  Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
  On such a big day for gold it's hard not to dispatch  something to the long-suffering, so I've purloined a  few excerpts from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's "Midas"  commentary tonight at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com. They're  below. If you'd like to see the whole commentary, visit  the Cafe and consider a free trial membership.
  And here's a plug, provided happily, for a great friend  of GATA, Robert Chapman, editor of the International  Forecaster newsletter, since he proposes to help raise  money for GATA's next excursion to South Africa, the  GATA Africa Gold Conference, at which we hope to gather mining ministry and industry officials from all the African gold-producing countries. 
  For three years in the early 1970s Chapman, whose writings have been distributed by GATA and www.LeMetropoleCafe.com,  lived in South Africa and Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, so he has more than an ordinary interest in ensuring that Africa gets a fair chance. For every new one-year subscription to  Chapman's International Forecaster newsletter at $79.95  U.S. funds, $30 will be sent to GATA. 
  The International Forecaster, some 25-plus pages every  week, is published via email -- except, Chapman says,  when he visits his grandchildren. By surface mail the  International Forecaster is published twice a month. 
  The International Forecaster is an international  financial, economic, political, and social commentary.  Over the past year the International Forecaster has: 
  1) Recommended that securities be sold in early April  2000, due to a coming correction. A host of shorts were  recommended. 
  2) Told subscribers last February to go long oil,  gasoline, heating oil and natural gas, as well as oil  and gas stocks. The commodity recommendations were sold  just prior to topping out. 
  3) Recommended a short on the Nikkei Dow at 21,000, a  cover at 14,500, a short at 15,000, and a continuing  short. 
  For a free sample copy of Chapman's International  Forecaster, send an email to BIF@gate.net. 
  CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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  Excerpts from "Midas" commentary  By Bill Murphy www.LeMetropoleCafe.com Monday, February 26, 2001
  The one-month lease rate spiked up again today and was  all over the place. It settled at 3.02 percent. That  means that the one-month rate has advanced 200 percent  in two trading sessions. Pretty extraordinary action  for a market that was supposed to be in the toilet for  the next few years. 
  Gold toiled a little more than $1 higher for most of  the Comex day when a slew of buying hit the ring. The  price jumped dramatically and kept on going. Hannibal  Lecter (Goldman Sachs) showed up late but was  overpowered.Two of the big buyers today were mega-hedge  fund short Moore Capital and Republic Bank. Moore  Capital was tied to the Citibank/Rubin/Fed Euro capping  escapade exposed by the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung  a few months back. Republic Bank is still dealing with  the aftermath of the murder of its founder, Edmund  Safra, in Monaco.... 
  The word of the moment is "stress." There is stress in  the gold world -- stress from a shortage of physical  gold and stress on the Gold Cartel from GATA. 
  Word was passed on to me from London this morning that  gold demand for all kinds of bars is smashing -- even  in Turkey, in which the local price of gold has soared  due to the devaluation of the currency. 
  The physical gold market is on fire and is very tight.  Short-term lease rates do not take off like this for  the heck of it. Cafe members should be aware of what  could happen to your gold or the gold of friends who  believe it is safe and sound.... 
  >From I.M. Vronsky of www.Gold-Eagle.com: "Goldbugs are  massing on the border of a weakened dollar. Testament  to an imminent rise in the price of gold is Gold- Eagle's record-breaking week.During the week of Feb.  17-24, Gold-Eagle experienced a record number of  accesses to its web pages. It soared to a rate of 1.5  million monthly hits.This reflects both the  anticipation of a total collapse of fiat investments  (stocks and U.S. dollar-denominated bonds) and heralds  a substantial rise in the price of gold. The stoic  patience of all will be amply and richly rewarded.  Within a week of gold's finally breaking loose from its  artificial shackles, the free forces of supply/demand  will be reflected in Gold-Eagle's access rate to  immediately soar to more than 2 million per month.".... 
  Gold shares have really been popping lately. The XAU  Gold and Copper Index has risen to 53.33. Today's move  up of 3.3 is the biggest in some time. The senior golds  usually move first in the serious gold moves, then the  juniors and the exploration stocks. The coming moves in  the juniors and good exploration companies are the  casino plays of a lifetime. Ten-baggers will be common.  Some of the quality ones will rise 5,000 percent and  more when all is said and done. The difference between  the coming gold boom and gold share rocket ride and  that of the hyped Wall Street dot.com bust is that the  gold move will be for real and last a long time. 
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