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  2. Nixon shock - Wikipedia

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    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 15th August 1971 in response to increasing inflation.

  3. Gold Clause Cases - Wikipedia

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    This system continued until 1971 when President Richard Nixon, in what came to be known as the "Nixon Shock", announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value even for foreign exchange purposes, thus abandoning the gold standard.

  4. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    Nixon's monetary policies effectively took the United States off the gold standard and brought an end to the Bretton Woods system, a post-war international fixed exchange-rate system. Nixon believed that this system negatively affected the U.S. balance of trade ; the U.S. had experienced its first negative balance of trade of the 20th century ...

  5. Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    Nixon's decision to end the gold standard in the United States led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. According to Thomas Oatley, "the Bretton Woods system collapsed so that Nixon might win the 1972 presidential election." [212] After Nixon won re-election, inflation was returning. [215] He reimposed price controls in June 1973.

  6. Smithsonian Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The drain on US gold reserves culminated with the London Gold Pool collapse in March 1968. [2] On August 15, 1971, US President Richard Nixon unilaterally suspended the convertibility of US dollars into gold. The United States had deliberately offered this convertibility in 1944; it was put into practice by the U.S. Treasury.

  7. Gold standard - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom slipped into a gold specie standard in 1717 by over-valuing gold at 15 + 1 ⁄ 5 times its weight in silver. It was unique among nations to use gold in conjunction with clipped, underweight silver shillings, addressed only before the end of the 18th century by the acceptance of gold proxies like token silver coins and banknotes.

  8. Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 - Wikipedia

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    The Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 (Title II of Pub. L. 91–379, 84 Stat. 799, enacted August 15, 1970, [2] formerly codified at 12 U.S.C. § 1904) was a United States law that authorized the President to stabilize prices, rents, wages, salaries, interest rates, dividends and similar transfers [3] as part of a general program of price controls within the American domestic goods and labor ...

  9. Gold Standard Act - Wikipedia

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    The Gold Standard Act was an Act of the United States Congress, ... which was abandoned in the Nixon shock of 1971. [7] ... Richard T. (1980). ...