The Nixon Shock: The Closing of the Gold Window in 1971 (HOM 35-C)
History of Money, Lecture 35, Pt. C: survey of the events leading up to Richard Nixon's Executive Order 11615, on August 15, 1971, suspending the convertibility of the US dollar into gold, and thereby, in effect, ending the Bretton Woods System. Includes a discussion of Charles de Gaulle of France and the concept of exorbitant privilege.
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