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.Read More

"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,...Read More

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...Read More

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.Read More

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 ($).Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Conservatism has very little to do with politics. As a matter of fact, the natural conservative inclination is to not get involved in politics because of its corrupting influences. The conservative instinct is to always try and prevent most things from becoming part of the political process. That ought...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Do we have shortages of petroleum? No. Do we have shortages of new finds of petroleum? No. Do we have less imports? No. Is there something you can put your finger on that makes you say the supply has been interrupted? No. What’s driving this? Ladies and gentlemen, it...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you believe that America’s best days are behind them and that your children are going to suffer debt slavery, that they’re going to have to pay back what we’re spending today, maybe you should consider an alternative course. Check out today's transcript for the rest...Read More

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 1775, American General Montgomery wrote to British General Carleton.Read More