Just a pen and some White House letterhead. On April 5 1933, FDR issued Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for anyone in the United States to own gold. By penalty of up to a $10,000 fine or ...

In order to obtain a better detailed understand of this, the text for the Executive Order 6102 is cited below. I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that ...

In reality, it was a forgery, but one based on a real document: Executive Order 6102, signed on April 5 of that same year. The content of that fake text was altered compared to the original in such a ...

This article originally appeared in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Here are two ways Mitt Romney can begin to gin up enthusiasm from Ron Paul supporters, believers in liberty and the ...

Eighty-eight years ago, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 6102, which forbade the “hoarding” of gold. If I were smarter I would have started working on this post ...

with the Cyprus deposit-seizure fiasco neatly marking 80 years since President Franklin D.Roosevelt signed his infamous Executive Order 6102 on April 5, 1933. FDR's gold confiscation meant private ...

Just a pen and some White House letterhead. On April 5 1933, FDR issued Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for anyone in the United States to own gold. By penalty of up to a $10,000 fine or 10 ...