The main focus of his latest work however, surrounds Rickards’ theory of the collapse of the international monetary system ... the return of some sort of gold standard.

it hasn't always been the basis of the monetary system. A true international gold standard existed for less than 50 years—from 1871 to 1914. Though a lesser form of the gold standard continued ...

The gold standard formed the basis of the international monetary system from the 1870s until the Great Depression in the 1930s, when many countries left it. Today, no country uses the gold standard.

THEORETICAL calls and even practical attempts to return to one or another form of the gold standard have not ceased since its ...

On this day, August 15th, 40 years ago, President Nixon announced the end of the Gold Standard and the end of the Bretton Woods international monetary system (see video of Nixon’s dramatic ...

The surprising answer may turn out to be a gold standard designed to reflect ... restoring gold to a central role in a new, international monetary system. Such a system, he wrote, "is likely ...

Wiegand, Johannes. 2019. “Destabilizing the Global Monetary System: Germany’s Adoption of the Gold Standard in the Early 1870s.” IMF Working Paper 19/32, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC.

The collapse of Bretton Woods prompted a fundamental rethink about what would give stability to the international monetary system ... the proposed change. The system incorporated elements from the ...

PARIS - World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday reaffirmed his proposal to use gold as a "reference ... disputes over the international monetary system. The Gold Standard is a system ...

It can also refer to a freely competitive monetary system in which gold or bank receipts for gold act as the principal medium of exchange; or to a standard of international trade, wherein some or ...

The phrase “the gold standard” means ... economics and refers to what was once the centerpiece of the international monetary system, when the value of most major currencies, including the ...

On this day, August 15th, 40 years ago, President Nixon announced the end of the Gold Standard and the end of the Bretton Woods international monetary system (see video of Nixon's dramatic ...