45th Anniversary of Nixon Ending the Gold Standard

by Mark O’Byrne
GoldCore

This week 45 years ago, August 15th 1971 to be exact, President Nixon suddenly declared the end of the Gold Standard. He ushered in the modern monetary system based on fiat paper and digital currency that works so poorly for us today and led to the global financial crisis.

The dramatic announcement by ‘Tricky Dicky’ is a must watch and you can see it here:

[…] This was one of the most important events in modern financial, economic and monetary history and is a seminal moment in the creation of the global debt crisis which has confronted the U.S., Europe and the world in recent years and continues to this day.

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