From the Sound Money Defense League
via Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, April 3-, 2026
For the 11th consecutive year, the nation's premier national precious metals dealer and depository has teamed up with influential sound money groups to offer gold-backed scholarships to support student excellence in higher education in 2026.
Money Metals Exchange, Sound Money Defense League, and Sound Money Foundation help students defray the ever-increasing costs of continuing one's education through the first gold-backed scholarship of the modern era.
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In 2015 these organizations originally set aside 100 ounces of physical gold to fund scholarships, at the time valued around $120,000. As a result of excessive money printing and deficit spending, that same 100 ounces of gold is worth more than $460,000 today. Using this fund, the groups seek 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.
The sound money proponents also announced this year's distinguished panel of judges for the 2026 Sound Money Scholarship ...
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