Sentences with phrase «century global gold»

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As the global economy became more complex in the second half of the 20th century, most nations eventually moved away from the gold standard, creating fiat currencies built on laws and trust in government.

In God and Gold Mead's lens zooms out to this wider angle, locating the contemporary world in a global order that began among Dutch merchants in the 17th century and that has been fundamentally shaped by Anglo - American power and ideas since 1688.

Spanning from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis, War and Gold is an ambitious and unique study of money from the acclaimed author of Ghosts of Empire.

HadCRUT is the IPCC's gold - standard for measuring global temperatures - over last 15 years (180 months) the globe has cooled with a -0.24 C per century trend, not warmed as predicted

Per the IPCC's gold - standard of global temperature measurements, since the late 1800s, the highest per century warming trend achieved occurred during the 42 - year period ending in 1949.