Nixon closed the gold convertibility window because of capital outflows in the form of gold.

Fuck around and find out 🤙

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It's still hilarious to me that he blamed 'the speculators', and not the faft they the US wasn't able to stop spending and couldn't offer gold back to France and others for years.

They always blame the speculators and people fall for it every time.