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Announcing the Sound Money Fellowship: Promoting Sound Money Research

September 30th, 2024 • The Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange are proud to announce the inaugural Sound Money Fellowship—a new program designed to foster advanced research in the field of sound money.

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Weaponized Dollar Pushing States to Gold: SMDL Executive Director Joins Kitco News

September 26th, 2024 • Jeremy Szafron, Anchor at Kitco News, interviews Jp Cortez, Executive Director of the Sound Money Defense League, on the growing sound money movement across the U.S.

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SIGNED INTO LAW: New Jersey Eliminates Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver

September 12th, 2024 • Sound money advocates are hailing their hard-fought victory today as New Jersey’s Senate Bill 721 was signed into law – thereby removing sales taxes on purchases of gold, silver, and other precious metals

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Shell Game: How America’s Money Devolved from Gold to Fiat

September 9th, 2024 • This, dear reader, is how the public got tricked into believing in fiat currency—a shell game of epic proportions.

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Should the Dollar Be Backed by Gold?

August 27th, 2024 • Amidst all the talk about the Federal Reserve’s high interest-rate policy to combat its many years of monetary expansion and debasement, some people advocate the restoration of the monetary system on which the United States was founded

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Is Bitcoin Really Digital Gold? Comparing and Contrasting the Two Assets

August 26th, 2024 • Many investors put gold and Bitcoin in the same category. Some people even call Bitcoin "digital gold." Is this a fair comparison?

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Tax-Grabbing Nebraska Politicians Taught a Lesson by Sound Money Supporters

August 21st, 2024 • In a powerful display of grassroots pressure, Nebraska politicians beat a hasty retreat this week after attempting a brazen tax grab that would have reimposed sales taxes on purchases of gold and silver in the Cornhusker State.

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States Embracing Gold: Jp Cortez on the Sound Money Movement

August 16th, 2024 • Executive director of the Sound Money Defense League joined Jay Martin on VRIC Media to discuss how U.S. states are increasingly turning to gold, driving a sound money movement that challenges federal monetary policies

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The Federal Reserve Does Not Own Gold

August 14th, 2024 • Historically—as during the days of the classical gold standard—central banks maintained stocks of gold to facilitate the conversion of gold-backed national currencies. Those days are long gone.

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Kentucky Governor Plans to Collect Sales Tax on Gold and Silver Despite New Law

August 4th, 2024 • Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has decided he's going to continue collecting sales tax on the sale of gold and silver despite a new law repealing the levy and an attorney general opinion calling his line-item veto of the provision unconstitutional.

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