In June 1963, John F Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110, which was designed to shift the power from the Federal Reserve back to the American people. . This was done by creating an instrument called the silver certificate, which would be backed by physical silver and issued by the Treasury, not the federal reserve. . Sadly, the order was doomed to fail, and John F Kennedy was assassinated later that year. The lesson we learned, was that the high price of taking action, pales in comparison to do

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