Part Two
the Gold Standard
The Gold Standard was the foundation of the world’s financial system. The gradual, then sudden, departure from it was led by the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. Learn how global conflict led to the end of the Gold Standard and how the events that followed ushered a new era of monetary policy.
1914: The Great War
How WWI Initiated a String of Events that Tilted Global Economic Power
Post WWI: The Economic Fallout
The Aftermath of WWI and the Economic Factors that Influenced Events Leading Up to WWII
Post WWII
The Bretton Woods System and the Rise of the US Dollar
Nixon Shock
The Death of the Gold Standard
The Rise of the Petrodollar
The beginning of a debt based economy
2008 Global Financial Crisis
The Global Financial Crisis: Symptoms of a debt based economy and Bitcoin, an engineered alternative.