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The Pros And Cons Of First Backing The US Dollar

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First Backing the US dollar by gold or silver wouldn’t fix the problem the whole reason the US Dollar stopped be backed by Gold was because in the 1960s, European and Japanese exports became more competitive with US exports. The US share of world output decreased and so did the need for dollars, making converting those dollars to gold more desirable. The deteriorating US balance of payments, combined with military spending and foreign aid, resulted in a large supply of dollars around the world. Meanwhile, the gold supply had increased only marginally. Eventually, there were more foreign-held dollars than the United States had gold. The country was vulnerable to a run on gold and there was a loss of confidence in the US government’s ability
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