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Sound money sparked the American Revolution. It's time to return to our roots

Jul 12, 2025

There’s nothing more American than sound money

The spark that ignited the American Revolution was only possible because of it.

Had 18th-century Britain operated a fiat monetary system, we likely wouldn't be here.

No revolution. No America.

Because Britain’s currency was backed by gold, to fund its imperial largesse, it had to raise gold that it didn’t have - and to do that, it had to tax.

That overt burden lit the fuse of revolution. In subjecting the colonies to taxation without representation to fund conquests that they didn’t benefit from, Britain provoked a movement that ended in the birth of the United States of America.

Had it run on fiat - money created out of thin air by decree, backed solely by government’s “faith and credit” - Britain could have quietly printed its way to its ambitions, much like world powers do today.

Fiat enables a more sinister, diffuse, and invisible tool of control: money-printing.

Power imposed with a whisper instead of a shout.

No shout, no revolution.

Hard money made the imposition of power unmistakable - and ultimately, unbearable. It forced visible actions that provoked humanity’s natural check on power, and inspired a courageous stand for liberty and sovereignty.

That stand became the United States of America.

The ultimate irony?

The very country born from that stand would go on to later abandon sound money and lead the world into fiat - undermining the natural check on power that once gave it life.

That quiet imposition of fiat - sinister and invisible in its dilution of wealth and freedom - has been inflicted on us for decades.