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How Sound Money Won the Battle of Yorktown—and Saved the American Revolution

Early this month, U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) introduced the Gold Standard Restoration Act (H.R. 9157). If enacted into law, it would require public disclosure of the federal government’s gold holdings and eventually define the dollar as a weight of gold. For the moment, the bill’s chances of passage are as nil as nil gets. Sound money,…


UK Peer Calls for ‘Tangible’ Memorial to British Soldiers Who Died During US War of Independence

The co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on War Heritage has called for a “tangible” memorial to the British soldiers and the loyalists who died during the American War of Independence. Lord Faulkner of Worcester told The Epoch Times, “There is no memorial at the moment to those who died on the British side and…