James Turk
Founder
GoldMoney.com

James Turk has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. His business career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank, which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He subsequently joined the investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987.

Since 1987 James Turk has written The Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment newsletter that publishes twenty issues annually. He is the author of two books and several monographs and articles on money and banking. He is the co-author of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar" (Doubleday, December 2004).

Bill Murphy
Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee GATA.org

Murphy grew up in Glen Ridge, N.J., and graduated from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1968. In his senior year he broke all the Ivy League single-year pass-receiving records. He then became a starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League. He went on to work for various Wall Street brokerage firms and specialized in commodity futures. He began as a Merrill Lynch trainee and went on to Shearson Hayden Stone and Drexel Burnham. From there he became affiliated with introducing brokers and eventually started his own brokerage on 5th Avenue in New York. He now operates an Internet site for financial commentary, www.lemetropolecafe.com.

Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee  GATA.org

Powell has been managing editor of the Journal Inquirer, a daily newspaper in Manchester, Conn., for 26 years. He writes a twice-weekly column about Connecticut issues that is published in a dozen other newspapers in the state and frequently appears on television and radio public-affairs programs in the state.

He twice has been elected chairman of the Connecticut Associated Press Managing Editors Association and remains a member of its board of directors. He is also a director of the Center for First Amendment Rights Inc. and the Mary Lou Smith Scholarship Foundation.

He is a member of the Connecticut, Manchester, and Vernon historical societies; the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council; Community Partners in Action (formerly the Connecticut Prison Association); the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information; and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Technical and Historical Association.