I am aware that FDR was a member of an elite, from the very rich family, and that he did it because he had to, so he could evade the revolution in the USA. But he was the only President who was breaking the marriage between governments and corporatism known as fascism. And that was the best period in American history by any measure. His idea was saving the capitalism through social-democracy. Since his mandate (longest in U.S. history), plutocracy has taken over the State, and now we have the most lethal incarnation of fascist capitalism — Corporativism. You can’t blame him for that. And one more little thing: Executive Order 6102 that you have linked, did not banned use of gold, but hoarding of gold. You could buy gold for your paper dollars all until August 15th 1971, when Richard Nixon done the last step in the devious fiat scam and revoke gold backing to the dollar. On that day U.S. de facto defaulted.
Now, @joeyarnoldvn, your generation will have to decide: Capitalism or Survival. Can’t have both.
RE: The American Choice