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Authors: James Rickards

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United States
 
and Bretton Woods system
 
creation of Federal Reserve
 
economic policy for weak economy
 
elite rent seeking
 
and European sovereign debt crisis of 2010
 
expatriates living in Paris
 
exports increase
 
FDR’s Executive Orders
 
FDR’s gold confiscations
 
and G20
 
and German hyperinflation
 
Gini coefficient for
 
and gold standard
 
and IMF
 
in London Gold Pool
 
military
 
monetarism and U.S. economy
 
1930s bank failures and bank runs
 
1930s deflation and gold devaluation
 
Nixon’s New Economic Policy, 1971
 
quantitative easing policy
 
rebalancing plan
 
start of Great Depression
 
stock market crash of 1929
 
support of euro
 
and Tripartite Agreement of 1936
 
2008 to 2010 stimulus plans
 
U.S.-Brazil bilateral trade relations
 
U.S.-China bilateral trade relations
 
U.S.-Chinese currency war
 
wealth-to-poverty income ratio
 
See also
dollar, U.S.; gold
 
Upham, Samuel
 
 
value at risk (VaR)
 
Vanderlip, Frank A.
 
velocity, money
 
Vietnam
 
Volcker, Paul
 
von Havenstein, Rudolf
 
 
Wall Street Journal
 
“War God’s Face Has Become Indistinct, The” (Liang and Xiangsui)
 
Warburg, Paul
 
Washington Times
 
water
 
Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith)
 
wealth-to-poverty income ratio, U.S.
 
West Point Military Academy, New York
 
Wilson, Woodrow
 
Woodford, Michael
 
World Bank
 
World War I,
 
World War II
 
Wriston, Walter
 
 
Xiangsui, Wang
 
 
Yellen, Janet
 
yuan, Chinese
 
dollar-yuan exchange rate
 
euro and
 
manipulation of
 
in present-day currency war
 
as reserve currency
 
SDRs and
 
as supercurrency
 
2010 yuan revaluation
 
Yugoslavia
 
 
Zhou Enlai
 
Zoellick, Robert
 
Zubkov, Viktor
 

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