Susan Bradford [Editor’s note: Strictly speaking, of course, a defamation case does not qualify as a criminal proceeding, where I have added a few videos and blogs to round out the story. But Susan explained to me the intentional ambiguity: the justice system itself has become “criminal”! I think she has a point.] In 1971, economists admonished President Richard Nixon against implementing Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson’s recommendation to replace the gold-backed dollar with a fiat currency. Granting the Federal Reserve the authority to create unlimited amounts of money would…
