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A notorious milestone on the path to the New Deal order’s extinction was the dismantling of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, a process that began in August 1971 with Richard Nixon’s surprise declaration that the United States would no longer redeem dollars for gold.
Pandemic Politics
Jacobin
From the Medici of Florence and the Fuggers of Augsburg to the Rothschilds of Paris and London and the Morgans of New York, bankers have sat in the councils of governments, financing wars and popes, and occasionally sparking a revolution. __Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, they know that history is inflationary, and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.__
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
It is not widely known, for example, that __a large proportion of men in the United Kingdom only gained the right to vote in 1918; millions of working-class men fought in WWI without a say in their own government.__ The British often celebrate the enfranchisement of women following WWI but neglect the fact that 40 per cent of men only gained the vote then too.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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