FDR's Gold Confiscation Order
Lest we forget, Franklin D. Roosevelt made it illegal to "hoard" gold in 1933. Someone at TMM posted a link to an image of the poster they hung in Post Offices at the time. I transcribed it into HTML at billstclair.com/fdr-gold-confiscation.html. The images linked from there are large (750K), so don't click on them if you're on dialup, but the transcription itself is less than 9K. I wonder if Lord Obama will do likewise.
At notesforinvestors.com, there is an image of one of the gold certificates mentioned in the order. I pulled out the certificate itself. Click for larger version (1301x601 pixels, 280KB).
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