Franklin Roosevelt

• Myths & Reality of Gold Confiscation

  By James Turk  |  December 6, 2011

  There are a number of common misconceptions about the gold confiscation foisted on the American people by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. Most of these have been offered as justification for FDR's nefarious deed.

• The US Dollar: Too Big to Fail?

  By Jerry Western, Lorimer Wilson  |  December 16, 2010

  The US dollar really is everyone's problem. There are more dollars in circulation worldwide than any other currency - perhaps more than all other currencies combined as two-thirds of the rest of foreign reserves are denominated in US dollars.

• Shock Events & Gold Breakout

  By Jim Willie  |  May 12, 2010

  The key to understanding the continuation of disruptive and chaotic events is the realization that nothing has been fixed.