Please stop fooling people around. US economy was backed by gold as late as 1973. This was the sole reason all the economies of the world switched to USD. Then the Greay Charles De Gaule of France demanded gold from USA for the USD it was holding but in a blatant show of shameless power Nixon.
In 1973, Nixon devalued the dollar even further, making an ounce of gold worth $42.16 As the dollar devalued, people sold their greenbacks for gold. By late 1973, Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold completely. The market quickly sent the price of the precious metal to $120 per ounce.17
Inflation was in the double digits. It ended the 100-year history of the gold standard.
Please start reading my post cuz now am convinced you are not. I said gold standard works if you have more gold than the economies they are backing
Right now the current gold reserves of the world is $9 trillion dollars. That’s thevalue of every ounce of gold in the world. How the hell do you expect $9 trillion of gold to back the global gdp of $93 trillion. Either you have to reduce the value of everything by 10x or you have to come up with $93 trillion worth of gold to back it
Most of you just read some excerpt from Wikipedia and think they become some CIA experts unconvering the conspiracy that the leaders, central banks and economics of the rest of the world couldn’t