Two weeks ago, during a March 17 address to the nation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump asked that Americans work from home, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. And last week, on March 27, Trump signed a stimulus package of over $2 trillion dollars to provide relief to an
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill on May 17 that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the state to take an important step forward in reinforcing sound money principles. With this move, Alabama joins a growing number of states prioritizing the protection of citizens against the deleterious
(Frankfort, Kentucky) -- In a high-stakes showdown with Gov. Andy Beshear over a gold and silver sales tax exemption, the Kentucky legislature has deemed his attempted line-item veto as an illegal act -- and directed the Secretary of State to enroll the exemption into law. This action makes the Bluegrass State the 45th state in the nation to enact
Today, states across the country are beginning to actively embrace prosound money legislation , inviting a critical examination of how America abandoned the gold standard of money and racked up $34.5 trillion in debt. To understand how we got here, it’s important to understand the policy that initiated our monetary decline. More than ninety years
U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) has re-introduced sound money legislation to remove all federal income taxation from gold and silver coins and bullion. The Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act (H.R. 8279) backed by the Sound Money Defense League , Money Metals Exchange, and free-market activists – would clarify that the sale or exchange of
With Gov. Jim Pillen’s recent signature, Nebraska has become the 12th state to end capital gains taxes on sales of gold and silver. LB 1317 is the fourth major sound money bill to become law this year, as state lawmakers across the nation scramble to protect the public from the ravages of inflation and runaway federal debt. Under the new Nebraska
On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act. Original Article: Fixing FDR’s Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard to Fiat Folly and Back
El dinero es uno de los temas más incomprendidos de nuestro tiempo, y estamos viendo las implicaciones de esto cada día. Para entender el dinero, primero hay que comprender que los seres humanos siempre han estado incentivados a participar en el intercambio. Si los seres humanos no pudieran, o no hicieran, intercambios, la mayoría de la gente
Wyoming, Texas y Dakota del Sur son los tres estados más favorables al dinero sólido en América, según el Índice de Dinero Sólido 2021. Mientras tanto, Vermont ocupa el último lugar. Publicado el mes pasado para 2021, el Índice de dinero sólido utiliza 12 criterios para determinar qué estados mantienen las políticas más favorables y contrarias al
El Gobernador de Tennessee, Bill Lee, ha promulgado una ley que faculta al Tesorero del Estado a invertir fondos estadualess en oro y plata físicos. El proyecto de ley 1479 , presentado por el representante Bud Hulsey, fue aprobado por la Cámara de Representantes el lunes por 98 votos a favor y 0 en contra. Una semana más tarde, el mismo proyecto
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