by Nickel » Mon 17 Nov 2008, 12:10:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'Y')es Spec he did but he also fixed the price of gold. It was about $20.00 US and he set it at $35.00. It basically stayed at $35.00, I think until Nixon cut the dollar loose in the 70's oil embargo, when the OPEC nations starting demanding gold for us dollars. Yes/No?
No, that predated the OPEC crisis. Nixon started printing fiat currency in huge amounts that was making the value of a US dollar ridiculous; France called the US on it by demanding gold for dollars and would have depleted the US gold reserves, so Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold. In 1973, Kissinger secured a deal with Saudi Arabia to accept only US dollars for oil, and Saudi Arabia got OPEC to toe the line. The US dollar's been backed by the demand for oil ever since.