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Re:The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than ... by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:10PM (#28830537)
The dollar was pegged at $35 from 1933 to... was it 1973? In what sense had the US abandoned the gold standard in the 1930s? What is your definition of the gold standard, where the dollar pegged to gold isn't enough to mean you're on the gold standard?
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