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Podcast: Thorsten Polleit
Episode: Antony C. Suttonâs âThe War On Goldâ Revisited (short version)
Description: Antony C. Suttonâs 1977 book âThe War On Goldâ is more relevant than ever. Because Sutton understands, like no other, how to analyse gold from a political-economic, enlightened and courageous perspective. Sutton notes: âWhen we project early monetary experience to modern times, it should not surprise us to learn that all totalitarian societies, from John Lawâs France to Hitlerâs Third Reich to Stalinâs Soviet Empire, have conducted a war on gold. Indeed, the individual sovereignty granted by gold ownership must be removed as an essential prerequisite for an authoritarian regime. Gold grants sovereignty. In a dictatorship, all vestiges of so...