Mr. M Yes I do. Here is my latest for you.
  Le Metropole members,
  www.gata.org is up and running. The GATA Committee invites you to visit the Gold Anti-Trust Action  site. This is a site for all those that consider there may have been collusion by some of the Wall  Street Giants- certain financial firms that are borrowing gold at less than 1% interest rates and using those funds to finance other investment  activities. In doing so, we believe that they may have conspired in a manner that violated U.S. anti-trust laws.
  The GATA Committee believes that various bullion banks and certain New York investment houses are short thousands of tonnes of gold.  As there is  a natural, yearly 1600 tonne supply/demand deficit  at the moment, they must continually borrow more  gold and feed that supply into the gold market  place to keep the price down. If they do not, the price will rise to ration the diminished supply.  It is our opinion that without this borrowed gold supply, the price of gold would rally to an  equilibrium price of between $400 and $500 per oz.
  It is the intention of GATA to expose the huge  short positions of these arrogant price colluders.  We will expose their bullying, block busting type of tactics that have terrorized gold producers  and the gold shareholder community. When it becomes  known how short they really are and that number of  tonnes is greater than a year's gold mine production, other big money will go after them by buying up the available gold. The shorts will then be in big trouble as that word spreads to the central banks that have to be concerned  about gold loans to financial  institutions. The gold lease rates will start to firm, then firm dramatically. The loans will become very,  very expensive to roll over. When that happens, the  gold game that is being played by "The Masters of  the Universe" will end 
  We ask you to stand up and be counted. Are you fed up with your gold shares going nowhere but down?  Would you like them to soar in price?  Stop  fretting and do something about it.   Alain Despert,our Absolut Vodka artist, has  brilliantly captured the GATA spirit in his painting at gata.org. Be part of the GATA  legion that he portrays to you in his GATA painting. Your contribution WILL make a difference. Here is  a letter I received from a $20 contributor:
  Dear Bill Murphy and GATA staff,
  "Thank you dearly for your efforts. In the spring of 1997 I contracted a major illness and have not been able to work for two years.  In July of 97  I learned about Y2K and moved my small pension in hard currency into gold and silver.  My wife and  I have hung on to that pension $ with white knuckles as we've moved down the economic ladder.  We are now living in my Mother-in-Law's back yard, in a travel trailer.  A positive change in the  price of gold will keep us out of bankruptcy and  save the majority of our pension. I regret not being able to send more $.
  Sincerely,
  Tim Johnson
  Can you at least do what Tim Johnson has done?  GATA will be relentless in our pursuit to expose this outrageous situation that has devastated  the gold market participants.  We will demand  a "level playing field".  Nothing will stop us, or our effort.
  There are millions of gold stock shareholders.  While we hope to attract some significant contributions, smaller contributions by  thousands of Tim Johnsons will really add up and create a substantial war chest that will be  necessary to confront our adversaries that  will commence by GATA, and our law firm,  launching a serious investigation.
  The internet can make all this possible. The GATA Committee would appreciate it if you  could this email GATA request to other gold stock shareholders and to the gold companies  in which you have made investments.   
  We thank you.
  Bill Murphy Chairman GATA
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  The silver close on Friday was spectacular as  it rallied 13 cents in the final 10 minutes.  That is a very rare Friday afternoon event and  suggests Mr. Strong Hand has set up the shorts  perfectly. The lease rates rose back to 14% and the market went up so fast, so late, the shorts  had no time to cover and get out. Midas du Metropole thinks we will see $6 silver very soon.
  Indiana Jones and The Mine of Boom update:
  Indiana Jones has a big smile on his face. When  he was in the bowels of ECU Gold Mining's Valardena underground silver mine on Tuesday, the ECU share price was $.29 Cdn.  It closed at 40  cents Cdn. on Friday while most precious metals  shares were sinking all week. Indiana Jones sees ECU at $1 Cdn by early summer and if Midas du  Metropole is right about $9.78 silver by year end,  Indiana thinks this one could go to as high as  $3 Cdn. by the end of 1999.
  All the best,
  Bill Murphy   |