Did The Gold Standard Cause The Great Depression?

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One frequent criticism of the gold standard is that it caused the Great Depression. And that the recovery only happened because the tie to gold was severed by FDR in 1933. The argument says that gold was a handbrake on money creation and that stimulus was necessary to avoid a deflationary spiral. This has become […]

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