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Since August 15, 1971, the US dollar has been completely severed from gold. President Richard Nixon suspended the most important component of the Bretton Woods system, which had been in effect since the end of World War II.
Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance.
Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks.
When it comes to precious metals investing, gold tends to hog the spotlight. But silver is also important to investors, both as an industrial and a monetary metal.
On August 15, 1971, the last remains of what had been a magnificent monetary system died a terrible death, and the American academic, political, business, and media elites led the cheers.
Gold flash crashed over the weekend plunging to as low as $1,677.0 or almost $100 lower from the Friday close of $1,761.50 before making a decent recovery currently sitting at $1,730.
We've seen a sharp selloff in both gold and silver.
This month is the fiftieth anniversary of the Nixon shock, when the Bretton Woods agreement was suspended. And the expansion of commercial banking into credit for purely financial activities became central to the promotion of the dollar as the intern
On August 4, the precious metals firm Kitco Gold announced the launch of a gold-backed stablecoin which will leverage an audit process via Cohen & Company with monthly attestation reports. Kitco has partnered with Tradewind Markets, First Digital Tru
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On today's episode of GoldCore TV, Patrick Karim of NorthStarBadCharts.com joins Dave Russell for our monthly look at the charts. They discuss the long-term and short-term chart patterns in the gold, stocks, and cryptocurrency markets but mostly they
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The obvious difference is in the money: gold-backed dollars then compared with unbacked fiat today.
I know it sounds ridiculous.
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"...bill that would require all gold produced in the country to be offered to the central bank..."
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On April 5, 1933, under the pretext of a national emergency, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
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Having been slapped in the face by an unemployed fan of medieval swordsmanship who said he is a right-wing sympathiser yesterday, French President Macron was back at work today, making headlines in his latest press conference.
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Heavily Shorted Top Names Fared Well
A number of events are coming together which are set to push gold prices higher.
