2025 News

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Brittany Griffin
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2025 Key Media Coverage

09/11/2025 - Park City schools to receive nearly $854,000 from record state land trust distributions (Park City News)
09/03/2025 - Radio Interview - Treasurer Oaks discusses Women in the Money Conference (KVNU)
09/02/2025 - Utah schools receive over $100 million in land trust funds (ABC4)
09/02/2025 - Utah officials celebrate back to school with a record $111.3M from land investments (Utah News Dispatch)
09/02/2025 - Utah public schools get record $111M in land grant trust distributions (KSL)
08/28/2025 - Utah State Treasurer Marlo Oaks discusses cracking down on China, arguing the country is exploiting U.S. capital markets (Fox Business)
08/28/2025 - Treasurer Oaks Op-Ed : Trump’s Swipe at Debanking Is First Step Toward Dismantling ESG (Bloomberg Law)
07/29/2025 -26 State Financial Officers Rip Wall Street's Woke Investing (Fox Business)
05/14/2025 - Red state treasurer reveals why state financial officers have 'obligation' to combat ESG, DEI (FOX News)
05/02/2025 - Paying for Your Groceries With Gold? Some States Seek to Shake Up Reliance on Dollar (The Epoch Times)
04/06/2025 -'Most important thing we can do': Washington County promotes National Financial Literacy Month (St. George News)
03/28/2025 -Cox vetoes four more bills, rejecting a controversial tax policy and innovative gold legislation (St. George News)
03/28/2025 -Two dozen state officials sound off on DEI policies, says they are a threat to US economy (FOX Business)
03/26/2025 -DEI policies threaten US economy, according to state financial officers (FOX Business)
03/26/2025 -States Work to Make Gold and Silver Alternative Currencies to US Dollar (Epoch Times)
03/25/2025 - Treasurer Marlo Oaks Briefs Florida Senate on Utah’s Leadership in Legal Tender Gold and Silver (The Florida Channel)
03/20/2025 -Treasurer Marlo Oaks Talks Transactional Gold and H.B. 306 on KSL NewsRadio’s Inside Sources (KSL NewsRadio - Inside Sources)
03/19/2025 -First in America: Utah passes bill allowing state vendors to be paid in gold and silver (Financial Express)
03/19/2025 - New Utah law allows state vendors to be paid in gold and silver (Kitco News)
03/19/2025 - American Companies Are Harmed by Europe’s War on Emissions. What Can the Trump Admin Do About it? (Meeting of Minds Podcast)
03/2025 - Utah state Representative Trevor Lee addresses state ban of certain flags in Utah government buildings and the use gold as a transactional currency (Just the News - 29 minute mark)
03/13/2025 - Utah's Bold Move: Pioneering Gold and Silver as Real Money (Economic War Room)
02/17/2025 -Treasurer Oaks Op-ed: Collusion, Coercion, and the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Directives  (Real Clear Policy)
02/17/2025 -ESG and DEI Are Down But Not Out, Analysts Say (The Epoch Times)
02/05/2025 -Utah schools, public entities holding billions in 'reserves', after getting COVID money (KUTV)