Looking at the past 100 years of the US dollar's history, one theme becomes abundantly clear: in times of crisis, the US government has no issue with changing its own rules or breaking its own laws. And those "temporary" emergency measures have a nasty habit of quickly becoming permanent.
This is a surprisingly interesting video about our money system and the Federal Reserve. It presents information that I wasn't aware of ... and thought it was worth sharing.
For more, see the whole series here.