The U.S. Dollar, Obama And The Gold Standard
By Patrick MontesDeOca : "The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is ...
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