For almost 200 years after the nation’s founding in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. could brag about having the world’s strongest long-term currency, with hardly any inflation until the 1960s, the decade when President Lyndon B. Johnson took silver out of our coins. Then, Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. This debasement of our currency was a natural outgrowth of excessive spending by LBJ and by every President and Congress of both…
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