Articles
-
Controversial post: The dollar will die with a whimper, not a bang…
From Jim Rickards, Editor, Jim Rickards’ Strategic Intelligence:
The same force that made the dollar the world’s reserve currency is working to dethrone it.
July 22, 1944, marked the official conclusion of the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire. There, 730 delegates from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in the final days of the Second World War to devise a new international monetary system.
The delegates there were acutely aware that the failures of the international monetary system after the First World War had contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War. They were determined to create a more stable system that would avoid beggar-thy-neighbor currency wars, trade wars and other dysfunctions that could lead to shooting wars.
It was at Bretton Woods that the dollar was officially designated the world’s leading reserve currency — a position that it still holds today. Under the Bretton Woods system, all major currencies were pegged to the dollar at a fixed exchange rate. The dollar itself was pegged to gold at the rate of $35.00 per ounce. Indirectly, the other currencies had a fixed gold value because of their peg to the dollar.
Read full article
-
Authorized Person for MEX NEPAL
Mob: +977 9856030634 -
Biratnagar Branch Manager
Mob: +977 9852033934 -
Our Clearing Member
-
Our Banking Partners
-
-
-
