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Monday, August 15, 2011

40th Anniversary of the Closing of the Gold Window



• The Nixon Shock -Bloomberg/BusinessWeek

• The Nixon Shock Heard ‘Round the World – WSJ

• Nixon’s not-so-happy gold legacy 40 years on – Mineweb

• Nixon Showed What Not to Do in an Economic Crisis – Bloomberg

• August 15, 1971: President Nixon’s Golden Error – Real Clear Markets

• August 15, 1971: A Date Which Has Lived In Infamy – Forbes

• We are now paying for abandoning the gold standard – Telegraph

• Road to downgrade began 40 years ago – Des Moines Register

• Gold Standard or Nixon Standard – Lew Rockwell

• Gold-standard debate back, 40 years after Nixon – MarketWatch

• Gold Standard: Forty Years Gone — And Good Riddance – WSJ

• Nixon’s Colossal Monetary Error: The Verdict 40 Years Later – Forbes

• 50-Fold Gain for Gold Price 40 Years After Gold Standard Ends – Bullion Vault

• Fiat Money: The Root Cause Of Our Financial Disaster – Forbes

• Forty Years of Paper Money – WSJ



Mayfield at 3:16 PM
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