Daily Dispatches

Ripping Grill Off Teeth of Man in Custody Costs Metro $100,000

By Nate Rau
Nashville Tennessean
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100316/NEWS03/3160334/2066

A sheriff's lieutenant welcomed Anthony McCoy to the Davidson County jail system by ordering him to open wide to inspect the gold jewelry attached to his teeth.

5p ET Monday, March 15, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Jon Matonis, who describes himself as an economist of the Austrian school living in Gibraltar, has written at his blog, The Monetary Future, a fascinating account of the infamous attempt of the Hunt Brothers to get hold of a lot of silver in 1979-80.

By Adrian Douglas
Sunday, March 14, 2010

The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets eight times per year to discuss and set interest rate policy. The minutes of these meetings are not released for five years. This ensures that few people will ever read them. Furthermore, the minutes are heavily redacted and edited.

1p ET Sunday, March 14, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy was formally invited Friday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to speak at its meeting in Washington on Thursday, March 25, to examine futures and options trading in the precious and base metals markets.

The CFTC's announcement of the hearing can be found here: