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He confiscated gold bullion and put it all in Fort Knox. The Dollar started rapidly devaluing and the stock market didn't recover from 1929 until the 50's. The only way to avoid it was if you collected unique collectors coins bars. Rich guys with gold bricks were fucked. If you were middle class and screwed up by buying a gold brick or all identical coins you were also fucked. I told people about buying a shitload of South African Krugs to buy some other coins because of this. The only other option was to burry it for 60 years until Bill Clinton pardoned gold hoarders. This and being a shabbos goy getting us involved in WWII is the only real complaint I have about FDR.