Hearty thanks to Daniel McAdams and Dr. Ron Paul for having me on the Liberty Report to discuss “Last Rights.” It was great to catch up with two guys that are doing so much to keep alive the spirit of liberty and awaken other Americans to the cause.
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My Two-Bit Political Awakening
My Two-Bit Political Awakening by James Bovard Samuel Johnson may have been wrong when he declared, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” But for young kids, collecting coins is a less pernicious pastime than becoming a pyromaniac or Tik-Tok star. My own experience collecting, […]
Bashing Nixon and the War on Cash on Stansberry Research YouTube
UPDATE: Here is the corrected Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjZo0KEU_NI The War on Cash Is Here, Gold Will Be the Only Road to Freedom Says Renowned Columnist Stansberry Research [351K YouTube subscribers] The war on cash will have disastrous consequences with loss of privacy the greatest risk, says James Bovard, a best selling author and columnist for […]
Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic
American Institute for Economic Research, August 13, 2021 Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic James Bovard Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action […]
FDR’s Great Gold Robbery
Today is the anniversary of one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s worst infamies – his confiscation of privately-owned gold. I wrote the following article in 1999 for Sheldon Richman at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article was a spinoff of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. […]
Old Coins Taught Me to Never Trust the Government
Mises Institute, July 2, 2020 How Collecting Old Coins Taught Me to Never Trust the Government by James Bovard Old coins vaccinated me against trusting politicians long before I grew my first scruffy beard. I began collecting coins when I was eight years old in 1965, the year President Lyndon Johnson began eliminating all the […]
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