CNBC

This comes via our friends at Le Metropole Cafe

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Liberty Dollar's Bernard von NotHaus got 5 1/2 minutes on CNBC's "Kudlow & Co." program tonight and ended up with the support of host Lawrence Kudlow, who asserted that people should be free to choose their currency. It was great publicity for the cause of private ownership of and trade in the monetary metals, and you can watch it at the CNBC Internet site here.

Also today National Public Radio's "Bryant Park Project" program spent 7 1/2 minutes on the Liberty Dollar controversy, including an interview with GATA's friend, the economist Walker Todd, a former counsel to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland who lately has been assisting the Committee for Monetary Research and Education and the American Institute for Economic Research. The NPR program's hosts mocked the federal government's concern about the Liberty Dollar and other alternative currencies, and one of the hosts wondered aloud whether the government has copyrighted the shape of its coins -- round. You can listen to the program here.

Dear Mr. Wastler,

Thank you for the explanation of why you took down your post-debate CNBC poll. As the founder and editor of the DailyPaul.com, the largest and most popular Ron Paul blog on the Internet today, I feel it is my duty to respond.

Your letter was polite, informative and revealing, not only for what it says, but primarily for what it does not. As you mention, Ron Paul supporters are indeed a force to be reckoned with, in the spirit of Samuel Adams:

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Ron Paul on monetary policy:

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