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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 21 February

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Find out what the Committee of the Treasury decided on this day in 1776 in today's Founders History.

February 21, 2015 5

Interviews

Ron Paul – Hey Fed! It’s The Free Market Stupid, Pt I

"In 1971 it happened, and that’s when I started speaking out [about the Fed.] Really nobody listened. There were a lot of seeds planted about sound money, especially by Murray and others, and Mises. They talked about this. There was no audience out there. I would go to campuses, when I first went into Congress, and I would get 20 or 30 people come out and maybe convert one or […]

December 30, 2014 21

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 26 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1727, that of Horatio Gates. Gates was born in England and moved to America at 22, fought during the French and Indian War, and then returned to England. He didn’t return to the U.S. until 1772, at which point he purchased […]

July 26, 2014 8

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 2 April

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1792, Congress passed The Coinage Act, which created the mint and authorized construction of a mint building in the nation’s then-capital, Philadelphia.

April 2, 2014 6

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 1 April

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1778, Oliver Pollock used a notation which we now know as the dollar sign ($).

April 1, 2014 7

Transcripts

What Did The Founders Think Of Big Government? Let’s Ask John Taylor Of Caroline

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The last caller to the program asked me what I thought the founders, why they opposed or why they afraid of big government. I said to him that to answer that question, you’d have to understand or explain exactly what big government would have meant to them. It did not mean to them what it means to us today, because we see this monstrosity […]

November 12, 2013 8

Transcripts

Will We Eventually Cleanse The Currency Too?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We know that George Washington had friends and close associates that owned slaves. I demand that the U.S. Treasury -- as a matter of fact, I want a giant crane with a five-ton wrecking ball on the end of it to smash that thing called the Washington Monument. That thing needs to come down. Washington had friends that were slave owners. He had relatives […]

August 8, 2013 7

Transcripts

Silver Circle – New Movie About The Future Federal Reserve And Its Inflationary Consequences

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I want to go to the Dude Maker Hotline. I want you to say hello to another good friend, Pasha Roberts, who is the writer, producer, director of the great animated film which is now appearing on DVD and in other great places called Silver Circle. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

August 1, 2013 10

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X Day – Return To A Gold Standard Is Possible

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The German people are one of the better practitioners of free market economics in Europe. This is all traced back to Austrian School thought and Wilhelm Roepke. I didn’t know any of this. It is therefore a story that can be used as part of the historical record for those that say, [mocking] “We can’t go back to a gold standard. Everything would be […]

March 27, 2013 6