2025-06-08 The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade

2025-06-08 The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade

Author: Dennis Tubbergen June 7, 2025 Duration: 43:30
The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade and Made America the World's Chump This week on RLA radio your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute, where reveals how President Nixon's 1971 decision to close the gold window fundamentally broke global trade and turned America into a permanent disadvantage against countries like China. In this eye-opening discussion, Tucker explains how the shift to fiat currency created "unfair competition" that has gutted American manufacturing for over 50 years, leading to our worst-ever trade deficits. He also dives into Trump's controversial tariff strategy, the pharmaceutical industry's price-gouging of American consumers (paying 5-10x more than other countries for the same drugs), and the revolutionary changes happening in public health under the MAHA movement. From removing COVID shots from childhood vaccine schedules to eliminating chemical dyes from food, Tucker argues we're witnessing the first real government progress he's seen in his entire adult career. Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently publisher of Blindsight in 2020. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. For more information about our guest, Mr. Jeffrey A. Tucker, please visit https://brownstone.org. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit https://retirementlifestyleadvocates.com.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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2021-02-07 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Jeffery Tucker [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:09
What we did in 2020 violates every canon of sound economics. Money creation, over the course of 2020, looks just like a hockey stick. It’s terrifying. We got a kind of borrow and print regime going on, and it's extremely…
2021-01-31 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Peter Schiff [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:14
The U.S. economy is extremely sick, terminal in fact, if a doctor were to describe it. Creating more is not going to solve the problem. It is the problem. It’s the reason the economy is so sick, we'd been given a toxic d…
2021-01-24 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Harry Dent [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:12
We are nearing the end of a 90 year supper bubble economic cycle that will see markets, real estate, and even crypto-currencies (including Bitcoin) lose 90-95% of their current value by late 2022… That’s the forecast fro…
2021-01-17 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Simon Popple [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:05
The U.S. Federal Reserve, in December, just quietly changed the way they were going to report M1 and M2 money supply, stating that reporting would now take place monthly versus weekly, and they were changing the methodol…
2021-01-03 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ John Rubino [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:13
“Our monetary system is out of control, we no longer have the ability to manage it. Central banks around the world have no tools left and it's going to do what it's going to do. And we're just bystanders at this point, w…
2020-12-27 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dr. Robert McHugh [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:04
“The stock market's real, inflation-adjusted top, really occurred back in 2000. So most of what we've seen since then is just hyperinflation from the printing of dollars. There's a pattern that we're tracking…I call it t…
2020-12-13 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ John Williams [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:12
Cash and money in people's checking accounts are up 51% year over year. That's a record. Returning guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, John Williams and your host Dennis Tubbergen discuss this trend…
2020-12-06 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Michael Oliver [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:46
Could we see Gold hit $8000 plus in 2021? Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio, Mr. Jay Michael Oliver, says that given the continued degradation of money units by central banks abroad and the aggr…
2020-11-29 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Ed Butowsky [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:13
The government gravely underestimates the national rate of inflation via the CPI, a number plagued with bias and statistical manipulation. It is universally assumed that the government’s rate of inflation is accurate, bu…