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December 5, 2025 Guest Commentaries

Monetary Tyranny: How Legal Tender Laws Built the Fiat Empire – and How Free Competition Can End It

One way that inflation-prone fiat currency took over the monetary system was legal tender laws, which obligate private citizens to accept currencies like the dollar even when they don’t want to. Without these policies, weak and eroding currencies would fall to the wayside, and more stable currencies would replace them. The following article was originally […]