How The US Government Repeatedly Stole America’s Gold

The Gold Heist of 1933: The Original Government Stick-Up Imagine a masked outlaw holding a gun to your head, demanding you hand over your gold. That’s exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in 1933, except he didn’t need a gun—he had Executive Order 6102. Under the pretext of "economic stability," Roosevelt forced every law-abiding citizen to surrender their gold to the federal government at a mandated price of $20.67 per ounce. Then came the double-cross. Once the gold was safely in government hands, Roosevelt revalued gold to $35 per ounce, effectively robbing every American of nearly 70% of their wealth overnight. It was a calculated maneuver, an orchestrated theft that funneled the wealth of the nation’s hardworking citizens directly into…