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Can Gold Return to the Monetary Throne?

Summary by Business Times
THEORETICAL calls and even practical attempts to return to one or another form of the gold standard have not ceased since its collapse in 1971, when then US president Richard Nixon abandoned the dollar-gold link. Nevertheless, the idea is revived from time to time, either in the form of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s plans for a gold dinar or the alternative currency of the Brics bloc.
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In 1979 my brilliant professor of International Trade and Investment Rachell McCulloch, at Harvard University, told us in class with details what Nixon at the Smithsonian in Washington DC flanked by G finance ministers declared that he had made the most important Monetary Agreement in history. On August 15 of that year the US left the parity set at US$ 35 a troy in the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 and therefore the currencies became all fiduc…

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La Razón broke the news in on Monday, May 26, 2025.
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