– Glossary

Gold Standard

A commitment made by certain countries to fix the prices of their domestic currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold. Also known as the Bretton Woods System, the Gold Standard was enacted in 1946 and created a system of fixed exchange rates that allowed governments to sell their gold to the United States treasury at a fixed price. On August 15, 1971 President Richard Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system.

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