On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Under the gold standard your dollar bill represented so many ounces of gold and you were supposed to be able to always get that gold.

在金本位制度下,你的纸币表示着,很多盎司的金子,并且你可以一直兑换那些金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

At that time, both gold and silver were used to support the value of the American dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

During the post-World War II gold dollar, real economic growth averaged 4% a year.

FORBES: Gingrich, The Gold Standard, And The Florida Primary

Upheaval in the early 1970s ended the first dollar order (really a gold-dollar order) of the postwar era.

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What happens if say we go to a hard currency, say gold backed dollar in a fixed relationship?

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