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Flashback Friday: President Nixon Closes the Gold Window

Friday, August 15, 2014 10:02
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TND Editor’s Note:  Notice that Nixon says “currency,” not “money.”  Tricky Dick was actually being honest on that point.  Today, probably no more than one in one hundred Americans could explain what the difference is. The rest of the clip speaks for itself. — Eric Dubin

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TND Guest Contributor: Paul-Martin Foss |

43 years ago today, President Nixon decided to close the gold window. In his words, that action was taken to stabilize the dollar. As anyone who has bought anything in a store over the past 43 years knows, the dollar has been anything but stable since then.

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About  Paul-Martin Foss:

CMC-WebHeader24Paul-Martin Foss is the founder, President, and Executive Director of the Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking, an Arlington, VA-based think tank dedicated to educating the American people on the importance of sound money and sound banking.

Prior to founding the Menger Center, Mr. Foss worked in the U.S. House of Representatives for seven years, including six years as Congressman Ron Paul’s legislative assistant for monetary policy and financial services, and one year as Deputy Legislative Director for Congressman Thomas Massie.

As Congressman Paul’s legislative assistant, he assisted the Congressman in his duties as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy by helping to develop hearing topics, agendas, and briefing Congressmen and their staffs on monetary policy topics. Mr. Foss also was responsible for the management of Dr. Paul’s monetary policy and financial services legislation, including the “Audit the Fed” and “End the Fed” bills, and was co-editor of Ron Paul’s Monetary Policy Anthology, a multi-thousand page compilation of hearing transcripts, lecture transcripts, and other documents related to Dr. Paul’s chairmanship.

Mr. Foss received his Bachelor’s degree from The University of the South (Sewanee), and Master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

This article appeared on the Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking and is reprinted with permission, “Creative Commons 4.0.”



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