Episode Details

The Founding Fathers were deeply worried about the dangers of paper money, because they lived them first hand. On this episode, learn 4 key ways the founders warned us about the dangers of paper money – dangers we’re still living through today!

Path to Liberty: July 22, 2024

Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here

SHOW LINKS:
JOIN TAC

Show Archives

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government: The Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money

Benjamin Rush – Letter to John Adams (23 June 1781)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to George Mason (15 May 1787)

CAUSE OF PRICE INFLATION

Benjamin Franklin – Of the Paper Money of America (1780)

Samuel Adams – Letter to John Winthrop (6 Feb 1779)

Gouverneur Morris – Letter to George Washington (11 Jan 1796)

William Fleming – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (22 May 1779)

Thomas Jefferson – Additional Queries, with Jefferson’s Answers (Jan-Feb 1786)

EMPOWERS GOVERNMENT

Thomas Paine – Letter to George Washington

Listen Now