… or at least one of the major reasons why the “gold-backed U.S. dollar” post-World War II monetary system met with a speedy demise in 1971 after the U.S. government embarked on a “guns and butter” spending spree back in the 1960s.
Courtesy of Nick Laird at Sharelynx who once again has managed to produce a chart that says more than words could ever say about the evolving global monetary system that, lately, appears to be getting a little unstable.
