Moving to the Gold Standard

from American Countryside · host Andrew McCrea

During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy.  One was forcing the sale of all gold to the federal government...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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