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As gold keeps rising, and today is hovering around $2,000 per ounce, today’s guest says that this creates competition for the dollar as people move out of the dollar and into gold. This episode reveals how it is completely legal for the U.S. government to manipulate the price of gold to keep the competition for the dollar down. To understand how the Fed can do this, you have to look back at The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 which was passed under President Franklin Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression to stabilize the money supply in the U.S. It essentially transferred gold from private hands to the U.S. Treasury by requiring the Federal Reserve and all private persons and entities to remit gold over the value of $100 to the government. Today’s guest Chris Powell, Director of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (gata.org) says, “The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 created the exchange stabilization fund which has the authority to not only intervene in the gold market, it has the authority to intervene on beha