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Apr 2021
28m 5s

Killing the Gold Standard

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios
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April 18, 1933. It’s almost midnight in Washington, DC. Newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has gathered his economic advisors for a late-night meeting. He called this meeting to announce his plan to effectively take the US off the gold standard, the system by which every paper dollar is tied to a certain amount of literal gold. To his advisors ... Show More
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