Bloomberg has a news article on "a push in more than a dozen states to recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender." Among the developments: in Texas, "lawmakers are considering a measure supported by Republican Governor Rick Perry to establish the Texas Bullion Depository to store gold bars valued at about $1 billion and held in a New York bank warehouse."
And USA Today has an editorial making the case that "low interest rates — engineered by the Federal Reserve's program of flooding money into credit markets" have "perverse side effects and unintended consequences. The biggest of these, as it relates to housing, is that artificially low rates make banks reluctant to lend."