International Man – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press We need more than a red wave. We need a red tsunami. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:59:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://redwave.press/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png International Man – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press 32 32 The Collapse of Fiat Money and Gold’s Resurgence https://redwave.press/the-collapse-of-fiat-money-and-golds-resurgence/ https://redwave.press/the-collapse-of-fiat-money-and-golds-resurgence/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:59:57 +0000 https://economiccollapse.report/the-collapse-of-fiat-money-and-golds-resurgence/ It marked one of the most significant events in US history, yet most people know nothing about it…

It’s been over 50 years since that fateful day forever transformed America and the world.

Here’s what really happened.

It’s been rightly said that “he who holds the gold makes the rules.”

After World War 2, the US had the largest gold reserves in the world by far. Along with winning the war, this let the US reconstruct the global monetary system around the dollar.

The new system, created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, tied the currencies of virtually every country in the world to the US dollar through a fixed exchange rate. It also tied the US dollar to gold at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce.

The dollar was said to be “as good as gold.”

The Bretton Woods system made the US dollar the world’s premier reserve currency. It forced other countries to store dollars for international trade or to exchange them with the US government for gold. […]

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