Judy Shelton’s Plan to Revive The Dollar With Gold
Judy Shelton’s Plan to Revive The Dollar With Gold
Monetary Metals: 7-21-2025
What if America backed its debt with gold again?
In this powerful episode, economist and former Federal Reserve nominee Judy Shelton shares her bold vision for restoring trust in U.S. money.
From a historic rethink of the Treasury's role, to issuing gold-convertible "Trust Bonds" timed to America’s 300th anniversary, Shelton challenges decades of monetary policy and calls for a return to lasting value.
Chapters
0:00 Intro and Introductions
1:27 Return to a Gold Standard?
2:06 What a Gold Standard Really Meant
3:32 Bretton Woods and the Birth of a New Monetary Order
6:46 Shelton’s Gold-Backed Treasury Proposal
8:01 Why Gold-Convertible Bonds Could Work
10:08 Building Trust in Treasury Trust Bonds
11:30 A Gold Standard Is a Statement of Integrity
14:59 “Make America's Gold Money Again”
16:06 Rebuilding Trust Through Long-Term Bonds
17:23 Why Greenspan’s Gold Ideas Still Matter
20:32 How Stablecoins Could Back Gold-Tied Treasuries
21:25 Using Market Demand to Signal Trust in Gold
21:33 Can Stablecoins Work with Gold?
25:43 Currency Wars, FX Derivatives & the BRICS Challenge
27:12 A Broken Global Monetary System
30:44 The Fed Has Become a Speculator’s Paradise
34:08 Foreign Banks Profiting from the Fed
37:12 Reforming the Fed from the Inside
43:18 The Case for Boring, Honest Money
48:34 A Gold Dollar Could Be America’s Legacy
53:26 Copying Argentina, or Leading the World?