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To: E. Charters who wrote (90519)	10/11/2002 7:26:32 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116811

Mineweb interviews Tocqueville Gold Fund's John Hathaway groups yahoo.com group gata message 1254 . Dear Friends 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:..... . CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

To: E. Charters who wrote (90519)	10/11/2002 9:22:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116811

No wonder The Economist hasn't time to evaluate the value of gold, they're involved in more important economic analysis. Stiff competition Oct 3rd 2002 From The Economist print edition Liberalisation is making the adult entertainment business respectable THE mood at this week's board meeting of the newly formed Organisation of Adult Trades and Services (OATS) was surprisingly earnest. A policeman from the vice squad took copious notes while a distributor of hard-core videos, Anna Kieran, denounced the “market-trader mentality” of “cowboys” who give the industry an “image problem”. Along with negotiating lower insurance premiums, credit card charges and other prosaic questions, the big issue was planning the sex industry's event of the year, the Erotica exhibition in November. Through the new-found respectability came the occasional glimpse of the industry's old ways. Spearmint Rhino, the world's biggest chain of strip clubs, has been banned from the exhibition after its boss in Britain misbehaved at last year's event. “He wouldn't listen, and in the end I had to get one of my bouncers to smack him,” recalled a huffy sex baron. Although flirting and pole-dancing lessons are planned, the trade fair will mainly feature the products side of the industry—pornography, sex toys and the like. These days, most of this part of the industry is legal. Definitions of obscenity are now so lax that little apart from child pornography is banned. Since a change in the rules about hard-core videos in July 2000, the number of films applying for the steamy R18 certificate from Britain's film censors has quadrupled. Distributors pay up to £2,000 ($3,100) for the privilege—and fume about illegal competitors who import unlicensed videos, or sell pirated versions. As the industry has been legalised, so it has grown up. These days bits of it look much like any other business. The trade association has hired a professional lobbyist, and hopes to commission academic research to back its push for consistent, evenhanded regulation and tougher enforcement. Its members accept there is plenty of room for more consolidation, efficiency and competition. Margins are huge, the market murky. The industry hopes its products, like contraceptives in the past century, will become cheap, reliable, and unremarkable. But for the other half of the industry, sex services, there is little early prospect of gaining comparable acceptance. Although prostitution itself is not illegal in Britain, almost everything to do with it is. If prostitutes(cont) economist.com