Why U.S. Gov't Confiscated Gold In 1933. Can It Happen Again? Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012 Feb 29, 2012 - 01:54 PM By: Julian DW Phillips More and more investors are asking this question. Many observers and commentators have ridiculed this idea as archaic with the conditions that led to the confiscation being so different as to leave such a possibility as remote as the return of the dinosaurs. In this the first part of a series on the subject we look at the picture that led to the confiscation and look at factors that caused the confiscation to...