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Auditing America’s Gold Is Not Just Important, It’s Critical

02/27/2025 Power & Market Jp Cortez

An X exchange over the weekend is bringing new light to an issue long shrouded in mystery—the status of America’s purported stockpile of 8,133 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox and other government...

Report: 2025’s Best and Worst US States for Sound Money

12/10/2024 Power & Market Jp Cortez

The newly-released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and...

Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024

11/05/2024 Mises Wire Jp Cortez

This year is shaping up to be one of the most legislatively successful in US sound money history. Money Metals Exchange was instrumental in achieving six new sound money victories, as well as one key...

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Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024

12/09/2024 Jp Cortez

Not all news from the gold and monetary fronts is bad. In fact, gold made a number of advancements in seven states, including exemptions from taxes and attempts by states to restrict Federal Reserve behavior. Gold is alive and well.

Fixing FDR’s Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard to Fiat Folly and Back

05/12/2024 Jp Cortez

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.

History Repeats Itself: Abandoning Sound Money Leads to Tyranny and Ruin

10/07/2022 Jp Cortez

The current bout of inflation is the latest disaster in a string of disasters caused by government debasement of once sound money.

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