When America Remade the World Economy

Aug 13, 2021 Jeffrey E. Garten

Over a single weekend in August 1971, US President Richard Nixon and a crack team of advisers set in motion developments that would inaugurate a new world order. Though there was little choice but to end the dollar’s convertibility into gold, how the US went about it holds lessons that remain valid today.

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