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Home > Authors > Philip Barton > Why the United States Needs to Encourage Americans to Hold Gold.

Why the United States Needs to Encourage Americans to Hold Gold.

April 29, 2019 by Philip Barton

Times have changed since I first became involved in Gold on an almost full time basis in 2010.  This article, published by The Federalist, would have been unthinkable just ten years ago…

“While discouraging and even prohibiting Americans from owning gold was never good policy, it was at least understandable at a time the Federal Reserve was struggling to maintain parity between the dollar and a fixed weight of gold. But continuing this policy is deeply misguided at a time the dollar bears no fixed relation to gold and other nations, most notably China, are encouraging their citizens to accumulate gold.”

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