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To: Alex who wrote (51179)	4/6/2000 1:06:00 PM
From: goldsheet	Read Replies (1) of 116779

> Lincoln Administration should not have left the gold standard in 1862 in order to pay for the war with "greenbacks Technically, the US was on a bimettallic standard since 1792, with silver devaluations in 1837 and 1853. A true gold standard was not implemented until the Gold Standard Act of 1900 (3/14/00) and ended with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 (3/9/33) The idea of a gold standard is historically romantic one, but it really only existed for a brief 32 years. Non-commercial site reference: pages.prodigy.net

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