Promptly gold reassumed its primacy of place in the U.S. currency system, and for the next 17-year run, till 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve, growth was 3.4% per year. 5.5% for pushing two decades, then 3.4% for pushing two decades, under gold auspices: these are the statistics of not merely success, but the most phenomenal push into mass prosperity that the world had ever seen.
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