Milton Friedman & Nixon demolished the Dollar

T Milton Friedman advised Richard Nixon, serving as an informal economic advisor to him and Ronald Reagan. While Friedman's ideas influenced some of Nixon's proposals, such as a negative income tax, they clashed significantly on other economic policies, particularly Nixon's 1971 decision to impose wage and price controls.

the Nixon shock was the effect of a series of economic measures, including wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, taken by United States president Richard Nixon on 15 August 1971 in response to increasing inflation and threats of a currency crisis.

Although Nixon's actions did not formally abolish the existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, the suspension of one of its key components effectively rendered the Bretton Woods system inoperative. While Nixon publicly stated his intention to resume direct convertibility of the dollar after reforms to the Bretton Woods system had been implemented, all attempts at reform proved unsuccessful, effectively converting the U.S. dollar into a fiat currency. By 1973, the floating exchange rate regime de facto replaced the Bretton Woods system for other global currencies.