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In this episode, we trace the arc of American money - from Thomas Jefferson's warnings about paper currency… to the classical gold standard… to Franklin Roosevelt criminalizing gold ownership… to Bretton Woods… to Nixon closing the gold window… and finally to the modern era of unconstrained, monetary expansion and unconstitutional spending.
By Mark DeLuzio4.4
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In this episode, we trace the arc of American money - from Thomas Jefferson's warnings about paper currency… to the classical gold standard… to Franklin Roosevelt criminalizing gold ownership… to Bretton Woods… to Nixon closing the gold window… and finally to the modern era of unconstrained, monetary expansion and unconstitutional spending.