by MN Gordon, All News Pipeline:
Personal and political freedoms are inseparable from economic freedom. To this end, economic freedom is contingent upon an economy that transacts using honest money that’s free from coercion.
Volumes have been written on America’s experience with money of varying veracity. Here we’ll touch on a few key events. Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to coin money and regulate its value thereof.
Article I, Section 10, specifies that no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payments of debts. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913, passed by the 63rd Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913, established the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States.