Monetary Destruction in America

Monetary Destruction in America

The Constitution made it crystal clear what the official money of the United States was to be when it called the federal government into existence. That money was to be gold coins and silver coins, not paper money. Article 1, Section 10, of the Constitution, which is...
The 1929 Emergency Revolutionized America

The 1929 Emergency Revolutionized America

The stock market crash in 1929 provides an excellent example of how an emergency or crisis can be used to revolutionize a society permanently and destroy liberty and well-being in the process. Contrary to popular myth, especially among public (i.e., government)...
FDR’s Tyrannical Gold Confiscation

FDR’s Tyrannical Gold Confiscation

Sometimes people say, “I guess we’ll just have to have a major economic or monetary crisis to wake people up and cause them to want a sound monetary system.” There is one big problem with that refrain, however: A crisis or emergency oftentimes induces people to move...