Gold Insurance against a Currency Collapse

Edwin Vieira, author of "Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution" talks to James Turk about the Treasury's legal obligation to maintain parity between all forms of US currency, about Roosevelt's gold seizure, the gold reserve act and the abolition of the gold clause. They talk about the need for insurance against a currency collapse and how alternative currencies could play that role. They discuss the stark choice that follows a currency collapse: How the US reacted after the collapse of the Continental Dollar by enshrining sound money in the Constitution vs. how Weimar Germany drifted into fascism.