The Nixon Shock was a series of economic measures taken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971 including unilaterally canceling the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold. It helped end the existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, ushering in the era of freely floating currencies that remains to the present day.
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“Always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)