Why was the gold-backing of $USD discontinued during the Nixon presidency?
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Basically the US has printed too many dollars and other countries were getting wise to it.
There was a sort bank run going on and countries wanted to exchange their gold for dollars. France sent a war ship to the US and asked the Americans to load France gold onto it.
If Nixon had continued to allowed exchange the US would have lost all it’s gold.
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