Questions tagged [gold-standard]
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Is Steve Forbes factually correct when he says that all of our economics problems are made worse by leaving the gold standard?
When I started reading Steve Forbes book Inflation I was surprised by his confidence in making statements about the impact of leaving the gold standard.
The book is clearly written and goes against ...
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How did interest rates work under the gold standard?
Say under the gold standard \$1=1 gold unit. And the interest rate is 10%. Does this mean if I deposit 1 dollar at the bank at the end I would end up with $1.1 which means in essence I would actually ...
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Could Foreign Exchange rates fluctuate under a Gold Standard system?
I recently read an article where it said that during the gold standard, right before world war 1, 1 GBP went from equaling \$4.87 to soaring up to \$6.75 . My understanding always was that Forex rates ...
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Why did the US not refuse Gold Standard in 1929?
One of the things many nations did around 1929 (as the Depression started) was to refuse the Gold Standard.
One of the first things Franklin D. Roosevelt did after being elected in 1933 was to refuse ...
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Is the gold standard tenable for a "high-tech" economy?
I know about the gold standard and how that seemed to work for many years. I also read that some government official and/or economist in the late 19th or early 20th century asked something to the ...
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Why does a balance of payment deficit lead to an outflow of gold under a pre-WW1 gold standard?
I am trying to understand how gold flows "out" of the country during a BOP deficit and why this results in a contraction of the domestic money supply. I am not sure if the following ...
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The gold standard and trade imbalances
I’ve recently come across a paper which states that trade imbalances during the gold standard caused outflows/inflows of gold from the country running the trade surplus/deficit thus securing balanced ...
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What does the price of bitcoin per ounce of gold tell us?
For example, see the below graph from https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-vs-gold/
It seems that intention is to isolate the effect of US dollar when assessing bitcoin's value, e.g. BTC quoted in US ...
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Under The Gold Standard, was a country's money supply literally restricted by physical gold stores?
Under The Gold Standard, did the United States Mint actually track the amount of paper money in circulation against gold stores? And if there was an amount of paper money equal to the gold stores, did ...
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Gold Standard: Settling Up -- how were large transactions handled between companies?
I got the impression that the purchase of Alaska from Russia required at some point what would have been at 20 bucks/ounce (I think gold was at one point much less than 20) 350k ounces or roughly 10 ...
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What were the problems with the gold standard?
I was reading this answer to a question about bitcoin vs gold standard which includes
As a consequence, if Bitcoin standard would ever become adopted it would likely perform even worse than Gold ...
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If Bitcoin becomes a globally accepted store of value, would it be liable to the same problems that mired the gold standard?
I am reading this article here that explains why bitcoin is a better store of value than gold.
In sum, here are some of the reasons proposed:
If someday a "bitcoin standard" does come to ...
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Is It Possible for a Country to have a Gold Standard without a Fixed Price of Gold?
It is my understanding that at the beginning of the 20th century, many, if not most, countries had a monetary system that was based on a gold standard. However, by the end of the 20th century, most ...
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National gold reserve vs boosting economy
In Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (Milton and Rose D. Friedman) I read that when a given country economy is developing well then the national reserve of gold is decreasing, while if that country ...
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Was the gold standard a monetary union?
In the previous question here, one comment said:
"Currency unions to work properly need either perfect mobility of all factors of production (i.e. free migration/capital flows etc) or fiscal ...
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Why does the gold standard require countries to keep exchange rates fixed?
The gold standard required countries to use monetary policy to keep
exchange rates fixed and thus to allow prices, output, and employment
to vary as required by the movements of gold and the country’s
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Can setting bank's reserve requirement ratio in 100% simulate gold standard?
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If you want a gold standard, it's easier to set bank's reserve requirement to 100%.
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This was a comment in a video telling how government actions influence monetary inflation.
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Why was the price of gold lower when gold confiscation act was issued but raised afterwards?
I was reading up on the gold reserve act which made it illegal for US citizens to own gold with some minor exceptions.
According to the gold confiscation act which was issued before the gold reserve ...
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Who is Jacob? And where did he say this?
In Karl Marx "Das Kapital", in Ch I.1 we find this quote
"Jacob questions whether gold has ever been paid for at its full
value."
Is Jacob Vanderlint? Where in his book “Money Answers all ...
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Bretton Woods vs Gold Standard
I've been reading about the history of the IMF recently, and it strikes me as odd that despite the problems that arose with the gold standard (Germany in the 1920s, Fed cutting money supply during the ...
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Primary difference between FDR and Nixon for de-linking gold with dollar?
I'm unable to understand the different role that both FDR and Nixon, played in de-linking gold with dollar.
I do understand that after Nixon, value of dollar is not linked to amount of gold (No ...
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Questions about the gold standard and exchange rates
So I'm a total economics noob and I'm trying to understand some of the consequences of using vs. not using a gold standard listed on Brad DeLong's blog here: https://www.bradford-delong.com/why-not-...
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Under the gold standard, how did the redemption of gold work in practice?
For example, in the US:
In 1834, the United States fixed the price of gold at $20.67 per ounce, where it remained until 1933. (EconLib)
Does this mean that anyone with US\$20.67 could walk up to ...
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