Gold and price controls
Throughout the Vietnam era gold was fixed at $35/ounce despite rampant monetary inflation aimed at funding imperialist projects abroad – Americans wanted both guns and butter, remember? The end result of course was the disintegration of the Bretton-Woods agreement and a surging price of gold that still until this day gives cause to doubt the ability of central bankers to maintain the value of paper currency over time. |
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