One such crazy anecdote https://web.archive.org/web/20081215084648/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847704,00.html

This is a good alternate history of The Great Depression which does not idolize FDR as usual, but shows him as the bumbling technocrat that he was. In particular: Herbert Hoover wanted to do the bank holiday ASAP to stabilize markets, but FDR literally wouldn't return his calls. FDR wanted to wait...

Very low probability of this kinda order happening again. Nobody can afford gold, or any kind of asset for that matter. Not enough people have it to make it impactful to confiscate again. Today, It's work, get taxed, paybills, get taxed, save, get taxed, invest get taxed. They don't need to take yo...