Talk:Gold Standard Act
Latest comment: 5 months ago by Jokojis in topic modern currencies
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editgjty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.152.24.56 (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
modern currencies
edit"All modern currencies thus became fiat currencies freely floating and subject to market forces despite capital controls imposed by some central banks, with gold as a commodity."
This is dubious for several reasons.
- Not all modern currencies are freely floating
- This implies that currencies under Bretton Woods weren't subject to market forces, which is simply untrue.
- Gold was already traded as a commodity even prior to the Nixon shock.