By 1971, the United States had abandoned the Gold Standard. Calamities attributed to this action range from the vortexian national debt to soybeans being called “edamame”.
Can a conclusive argument be made for or against the Gold Standard to lay the issue in its final, albeit gilded, resting place?
Episodios
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06:38
What is a Gold Standard?
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16:30
FDR, Nixon, and Gold
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34:15
The Gold Standard is an Idea Whose Time Never Was