(*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time. Please cut the poor audio quality some slack!)

Here it is, another installment in our non-consecutive mini-series on the tumultuous history of the United States Dollar.

Join CJ as he discusses:

How hard money was eventually restored after the Civil War

The Mint Act of 1873 (called the “Crime of ’73” by its opponents)

The Populists’ (unsuccessful) challenge against the Gold Standard

The establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and its effect on US money

Inflation/devaluation during the First World War

The actions of Benjamin Strong (Head of the NY Fed) in the 1920s to help the British pound, moves which also caused the stock & real estate bubbles of the 1920s, which burst in 1929

The end of the gold standard, gold confiscation, and the devaluation of the US Dollar under FDR in the 1930s, and how this was actually one of the factors that led to the Second World War

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