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- From: breid@pyrhard2.eng.pyramid.com (Bill Reid)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: need details on devaluating U.S. currency
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:30:17 GMT
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- In article <92247.202251ECOKXP@BYUVM.BITNET> ECOKXP@BYUVM.BITNET writes:
- >Actually the Bretton-Woods system was the fixed rate regime that was
- >scrapped during the Nixon years in '72 or '73. It was not strictly a gold
- >standard as all major currencies were pegged via par values in terms of
- >dollars. The dollar, however, was pegged to gold at some official rate
- >(the value escapes me at the moment, was it $32/oz?)
-
- Yes, that's what I remember, but since I couldn't even remember that
- Nixon ABANDONED the Bretton-Woods agreement, rather than SIGNING it,
- I wouldn't take it as gospel truth! (Somebody sent me funny email saying that
- Algier Hiss signed it, which may actually be true). Anyway, the
- corrected version of events is that Nixon, along with other countries
- that were signatories to Bretton-Woods, abandoned the agreement of
- fixed currency rates pegged to the dollar, which WAS pegged to
- gold, which in the same general time frame, Nixon de-pegged by
- signing some law, said law also allowing Americans to legally buy
- gold, at market rates.
-
- What's also interesting is the tremendous rise in America of the
- market value of gold, which went from the $32/oz official rate
- in 1972, jumped rather quickly to $64/oz or something in 1973,
- and eventually hit $900/oz in 1979 (since collapsed back to
- mid-300s?).
-