Sentences with phrase «states abandoning the gold»

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If you had purchased $ 33,000 of gold in 1971 when the United States abandon the Bretton Woods Exchange under president Richard Nixon and held on to it during the last recent economic crisis you could sell that gold today for $ 1,155,000.00!

Yellow waters The Gold King Mine is one of an estimated 23,000 abandoned mines dotting the state of Colorado.

That act established funding for states to clean up long - abandoned mines, like the Gold King (which closed in the 1920s).

As a direct result of the economic policies imposed by the United States at the time, the gold standard was all but abandoned and the world's major currencies began to float.