Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James RickardsIn 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U. S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. At best, they offer

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