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Is U.S. currency still backed by gold?
No, when the United States stopped selling gold to foreign official holders
of dollars at the rate of $35 an ounce in 1971, it brought the gold exchange
standard to an end. In 1973, the United States officially ended its
adherence to the gold standard. Many other industrialized nations also
switched from a system of fixed exchange rates to a system of floating rates
. In August 1974, President Ford rep |
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