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Elvia Martinez-Montez always sensed there was something fishy about her father's death. Sixty years and an exhumation later, she and her son are sure of it. And while they can't name a suspect, they think it has something to do with a hidden cache of Nazi gold. It helps that both of them happen to be paranormal investigators. They live in San Antonio but on a visit to the Rio Grande Valley, the two unveiled their theory Tuesday and shared a forensic examiner's report on the dug-up remains of Adam G. Martinez. He had returned from World War II with...

Until 1933, the U. S. dollar was the among the strongest and most stable currencies in the world. With the stroke of a pen, President Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed it. We are still plagued with the resulting inflation. All governments lust for taxpayers’ money. The ability to direct the expenditure of large sums of money confers great power upon political leaders. But the spending requirements that President Franklin Roosevelt had in mind upon taking office in 1933 were of extraordinary dimensions. Inflating the currency, in socialist theory, was a way to create more money for that end. In the 1920s, after...

Golden Caldron Evokes Mystery of Hidden Nazi Gold Fri Aug 9,11:08 AM ET By David Crossland BERLIN (Reuters) - A mysterious golden caldron found in a Bavarian lake has rekindled a decades-old fascination with Nazi gold believed hidden in the Alps. The Bavarian government said this week it was claiming ownership of the 23-pound, solid gold vessel found by an amateur diver last year at the bottom of Lake Chiemsee, a tourist destination 40 miles southeast of Munich. Archeologists have said the caldron, adorned with a relief of mythical Celtic and Indo-Germanic figures, may have been made by the Nazis,...