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Recent Examples on the Web That made foreign investors question the U.S.’s ability to stick with the gold standard. — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Military coverage can still seem like the gold standard. — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022 Instead, about six weeks after the inauguration, Roosevelt took the U.S. off the gold standard. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021 But the fateful decision was to move toward a fiat monetary system rather than return to a genuine gold standard. — William J. Luther, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021 With America’s dollar then tied to the gold standard, the only means by which new wealth could be generated was by finding additional gold. — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021 Fifty years ago next month, at a secret weekend meeting at Camp David, President Richard Nixon and his top economic advisors decided to take the U.S. off the gold standard. — Jeffrey E. Garten, WSJ, 1 July 2021 In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt moved the country off the gold standard in hopes of bolstering an economy ravaged by the Great Depression. — Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021 Mike Krzyzewski, who’ll be retiring as Duke’s men’s coach after next season, was the man who put USA Basketball back on the gold standard after the 2004 stumble in Athens. — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021 See More

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“Gold standard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gold%20standard. Accessed 23 May. 2022.

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