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Also, it suggests that these private shareholders aren't trying to "take every dollar off the table" during the IPO pricing, given the post-market performance (many of whom shot up on their first day of trading).
CWII occurred in the 1960s and '70s and culminated in Nixon's decision to take the dollar off the gold standard.
In "The Yen's Lesson for the Yuan, Josephh A. Massey and Lee M. Sands admit that getting tough with currency manipulators can work, as it did in August 1971, when President Nixon imposed an import surcharge and took the dollar off the gold standard.
At 9 PM on August 15 , 1971 President Richard Nixon gave a televised speech to the nation, announcing that he was taking the dollar off the "Gold Standard".
In the end, the Bretton Woods agreement established the American dollar as the world's predominant currency, pegged to gold and with other currencies fixed against it — a system that endured until the 1970s, when President Richard M. Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard and floating exchange rates soon prevailed.
Since President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard in 1971, the price of an ounce of gold has been, on average, 16 times the price of a barrel of oil.
The Japanese story began in August 1971 when, with the American economy under strong inflationary pressure, President Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, letting its value fall.
Since Richard Nixon took the dollar off gold in 1971, the value of money has depended on central bankers' promises not to allow their currencies to be debauched.For a long time these promises were not worth much.
Several times, as when Mr. Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, American presidents have succeeded in persuading Japan to let the yen rise.
