However, a gold standard system can make available any amount of currency, as is appropriate given economic needs and the fixed parity value.

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Automatic adjustment, together with the anchor against inflation provided by the fixed parity, has, for all its defects, delivered much better results than the country has been used to.

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The Turkish lira has depreciated against the dollar by 58% in less than a year while the Argentine peso has remained fixed at parity to the dollar.

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