VIDEO: THE AUTHENTIC JUDY SHELTON
A Maverick Economist Takes On Washington
It was February 11th when I received the breathless call from Alex Deluce.
“Judy has agreed to an in-person interview!”
“Seriously?” I replied.
“Yes,” Alex excitedly laughed into the phone. “And she wants to do it at her home!”
“Wow…”
Judy Shelton is one of the most compelling and controversial figures in Washington, D.C. She’s the economist who predicted the Soviet Union’s collapse years before it happened; wrote the book Richard Nixon couldn’t put down; and has spent decades fighting for “sound money”—a U.S. dollar backed by gold so politicians can’t crank up the printing press to fund promises while stealing purchasing power through inflation.
It was Shelton’s strong support for a dollar backed by gold that got her brutally attacked during her 2020 Senate confirmation for the Federal Reserve. Senators called her ideas “nutty,” claimed she wasn’t an economist, and labeled her a “gold bug.” It seemed clear at the time that Washington insiders killed her nomination to protect their addiction to endless government spending.
Fast forward to today: gold prices have skyrocketed, inflation is still hammering families, and the de-dollarization trend has gone global. Shelton’s warnings now look like pure prophecy.
Alex Deluce is the talented publisher and editor of Gold Telegraph, one of the world’s most influential finance and commodities news platforms. I have been producing monthly interviews for him for nearly two years with folks like NATO commander General Wesley Clark, mining billionaire Pierre Lassonde, and former U.S. congressman Ron Paul (be sure to subscribe here or follow here to catch the latest ones).
So, when he called in mid-February to tell me Shelton had agreed to an in-person interview at her history-filled home, I jumped at the opportunity to produce the project. The result is a nearly 50-minute documentary covering:
Nixon’s 1971 decision to close the gold window despite later telling Shelton that he knew “very little about monetary policy”
What former Fed chairman Paul Volcker admitted to Shelton about what America lost when it ditched dollars backed by gold
The painful controversy and “humiliation” of her failed 2020 Federal Reserve nomination
What causes monetary resets (hint: WAR!)
Who really owns the Federal Reserve
And much more…
Producing, writing and editing this film was extremely rewarding. And Alex did a fantastic job asking the right questions. The ideas espoused by Shelton, despite their seeming complexity, really matter to everyday people.
Money should serve as a reliable measure of the true worth of goods, services, and wages. If the government can slowly steal the value of that money via inflation then, as Shelton asserts, that’s theft…and morally wrong.
Watch the full documentary now on YouTube (embedded above) or check out the embedded version below on X.
