Sentences with phrase «economies abandoned the gold»

While gold was washed out during the Great Depression once global economies abandoned the gold standard, today it provides a store of value against risks of both inflation and deflation.

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The Bretton Woods system was in place from the end of WWII until 1971 when inflationary pressures in the US economy forced Nixon to abandon the gold standard.
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