Thursday, August 17, 2017

When the US gov't confiscated all the gold

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Executive Order 6102 was a United States presidential executive order signed on April 5, 1933 that took everyone's gold away by force.

People were forced to accept paper money for their gold. ...The Uebersee Finanz-Korporation entrusted the gold to an American firm for safekeeping, and the Swiss were shocked to find that...

The Gold Reserve Act (the United States Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934) required that all gold be turned in and traded for worthless paper... By 1975 Americans could again freely own and trade gold. ...United States Supreme Court, which narrowly upheld Roosevelt's gold confiscation policy.

Did FDR really confiscate Americans' gold in 1933? Did Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt confiscate gold from U.S. citizens in 1933? Is that gold held in Fort Knox, a currently empty gold vault?

They can just steal our gold by decree?
Gold Confiscation? Americans continue to have an attraction to gold perhaps because... I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under...

Should I be worried about gold confiscation? Americans who owned gold were told to deliver their gold to the... In 1933, the United States found itself in the thick of the Great Depression.

FDR's 1933 gold confiscation was a bailout of the [private bank known as the] Federal Reserve... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 executive order outlawing the private ownership of gold in the United States was arguably unconstitutional. But that didn't stop him...

The day the government seized Americans' gold (four day after April Fool's Day)...

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