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Gold Standard A monetary system in which a country's currency unit is freely convertible into fixed amounts of gold. Notes: The gold standard has lost its popularity. The U.K. was taken off in 1931, and the U.S. was taken off in 1971. Gold standard An international monetary system in which currencies are defined in terms of their gold content, and payment imbalances between countries are settled in gold. It was in effect from about 1870 to 1914.
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| From 1914 to 1925 it was true that the influence of American policy alone on American prices and therefore on the world value of gold was so dominant as to deprive the expression "maintaining the dollar at parity with gold" of the significance properly attributed to it when an international gold standard system is in force. |
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