
Danny
@mad-scientist
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It's not clear to me how we’ve ended up in a situation where I’m defending Trump, but here we go.
Let’s take a quick trip back to ancient times, when dinosaurs roamed the American continent (and the whole world) – dinosaurs like GM, GE, Ford, and ExxonMobil. They sold their goods for dollars that, on the surface, looked like today’s dollars. Yet those dollars were entirely different. For every such dollar, the state was required to hold some gold in reserve – far less than a dollar’s worth, but still.
Then, in the early ‘70s of the last century of the previous millennium, when France sought to exchange its surplus paper money for a bit of that yellow metal, "I'm not a crook" Nixon "temporarily" suspending that function. Until that decision, any nation importing goods and services had to export roughly an equal value. Why? Because value was measured in gold, and if someone buys more than they sell, sooner or later they’d run out of metal to share. 1/4 1 reply
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