Article on Ron's hearing on shortage of mint blanks for coins if u prefer to video

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UPDATE: Congressional Panel Questions Why U.S. Mint Scrimps On Bullion Coins

http://www.kitco.com/reports/KitcoNews20110407PO_us_mint_upd.html

[Corto_Maltese]

I watched it. It was quite interesting. Hard to get silver blanks right now.

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I wonder if they will get anywhere on reducing the long term capital gains on precious metals?

[RileyE104]

I watched it. It was quite interesting. Hard to get silver blanks right now.

Hard? I thought that someone offered to sell the mint as many blanks as they need and for some reason the offer was declined. :confused:

[vita3]

thanks for posting

[Legend1104]

Can they use these hearings to actually help some type of bill or is this just in the hopes that enough congressmen will get inspired to support a bill?

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They can do both but it is also to generate public support to push a bill to the floor since the speaker controls that.

Unfortunately, everytime the Fed comes out with docs or Ron has a hearing, they start pretending the world is going to end because the government is going to shut down or something, and we're supposed to be more interested in that....