Gold-backed Scholarship Offers Deserving Students Opportunity to Save on College
*A national precious-metals dealer is teaming up with a sound money policy group to help students pay for the ever-increasing expenses associated with continuing education.*
*CHARLOTTE, NC / ACCESSWIRE / July 6, 2023 / *A national precious-metals dealer is teaming up with a sound money policy group to help students pay for the ever-increasing expenses associated with continuing education.
Money Metals Exchange has teamed up with the Sound Money Defense League to offer the Sound Money Scholarship - the first gold-backed scholarship of the modern era. Starting in 2016, these organizations have set aside 100 ounces of physical gold (currently worth more than $190,000) to reward outstanding students who display a thorough understanding of economics, monetary policy, and sound money.
The Sound Money Scholarship is open to high school seniors, undergraduate, and graduate students with an interest in economics, specifically the free-market tradition. Applicants do not have to be economics majors to be eligible to receive this scholarship.
Money Metals Exchange and the Sound Money Defense League also announced this year's blue-ribbon panel of judges:
*Thomas Hogan,* PhD,is a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He was formerly the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs.
*Peter St. Onge*, PhD, is an economist at the Heritage Foundation, a Fellow at the Mises Institute, and a former MBA professor in Taiwan. He makes daily videos about economics and Freedom.
*Judge Andrew Napolitano *is a Former Fox News Analyst, a best-selling author and commentator, and the host of "Judging Freedom" podcast.
*Robert Wright*, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the co-author or co-editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections.
In prior years, the Sound Money Scholarship has received entries from students attending more than 150 different schools across 44 states, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., six countries, and three continents.
The deadline to submit applications is October 31, 2023.
For more information, please visit moneymetals.com/scholarship or email scholarship@moneymetals.com.
*The Sound Money Defense League* is a non-partisan public policy group working nationally to restore sound money at the state and federal level.
*Money Metals Exchange* is a national precious metals company recently named "Best in the USA" by an independent global ratings group and serves almost 500,000 investors in physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. The company also operates the largest precious metals depository in the western United States and a collateral lending group. For more information, please visit https://www.moneymetals.com/.
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*SOURCE:* Sound Money Defense League
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