Why did we abandon the gold standard?

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Why did we abandon the gold standard?

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It limits the government’s ability to enact policies that can reduce severity of recessions/economic downturns. Silly to base value of currency on a pile of shiny metal sitting in a warehouse even as technology, etc. rapidly grew the economic output.

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