Be Your Best led all the way to earn her first Grade 1 victory in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes by 2 3/4 lengths at Santa Anita.

Coming up very quickly on the Project 2025 agenda: a reversal of President Nixon’s 1971 repeal of the gold standard. Chapter 24 of the playbook outlines specific plans to make two dramatic moves ...

Gold is still not accepted for tax payments in Utah—fiat dollars remain the sole means to settle debts with the state.

Ever since the then US President Richard Nixon killed the gold standard, fiat money has been in free fall. By one estimate, all the printed dollar notes in existence, around 80% were printed in the ...

Gold has served as humanity’s ultimate store of value for millennia, preserving wealth through wars, economic collapses and pandemics. Its scarcity, intrinsic worth and universal acceptance have ...

The advantage to such a system? It was said to avoid inflation. The gold standard became the law in the United States on March 14, 1900 — 125 years ago Friday. It would drop the Gold Standard ...

particularly under the gold standard. That history still shapes how gold is valued and traded today. Understanding how the gold standard worked can help new investors get a clearer picture of why ...

The gold standard is a monetary system in which gold is used to guarantee the value of a country’s currency. It was a typical measure in the 20th century to ensure that a country’s money was ...

The Gold Standard is among the most influential systems in world economic and financial history. In simple terms, the Gold Standard is a monetary system where the value of a country's currency is ...

Although gold prices have soared by about 22% in the past year, that pace of growth is still outpaced by stocks, with the Nifty 50 growing about 26% over the same period. Even over a longer term ...

Aug. 15, 2024, marks the 53rd anniversary of the “Nixon Shock,” the day that United States President Richard Nixon eliminated the gold standard for the US dollar. At the time, Nixon claimed ...