Evidence Shows Silver and Gold Were Used Much Earlier Than Originally Thought
August 22nd, 2025 • This historic archaeological discovery of silver and gold money supports Carl Menger's and the Austrian School of Economics’s theory on the origin of money.
Maryland and Washington State Impose Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver Bullion
July 22nd, 2025 • While taxes on gold and silver may benefit governments by providing a modest revenue stream, it harms the citizens the government supposedly serves.
Sound Money Saved the American Revolution
July 9th, 2025 • Sound money—gold and silver—helped win the American Revolution and remains vital to liberty. Larry Reed and Money Metals explore its historic role and modern revival in this 4th of July podcast.
Incremental Steps Toward Sound Money
July 6th, 2025 • Today’s dollar is nothing like it was intended when the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified nearly 240 years ago.
Freedom Dies When Money Lies: Why Sound Money is the Foundation of a Free Society
July 3rd, 2025 • When money loses its integrity, freedom soon follows.
Ruining the Money
April 23rd, 2025 • By the start of the 20th Century, governments and their diplomats around the world dubbed the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire “the sick man of Europe.”
The Coinage Act of 1792: Then and Now
April 1st, 2025 • Long before fiat currency, digital dollars, or cryptocurrency, America’s Founders sought to anchor the young nation’s economy in gold and silver, i.e. sound money.
The Gold at Fort Knox WAS Stolen from Americans
March 12th, 2025 • When I say “stolen,” I don’t even mean in the sense that “taxation is theft” and that the US bought the gold using tax dollars. In truth, the way the US Treasury acquired much of its gold hoard is even more underhanded than ordinary taxation.
More on the Presumed Theft of Gold that Became the Fort Knox Holdings
March 12th, 2025 • The fallout of FDR’s gold adventures was far worse than reneging on US gold bond redemption...
Why Bitcoin Is NOT Equal to Gold
March 12th, 2025 • Cryptocurrency enthusiasts often refer to Bitcoin as “digital gold” and consider both as equal forms of sound money. In reality, gold and Bitcoin are quite different in asset quality and in terms of their hierarchy as sound money.
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