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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory

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Davy Crockett
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (16013)6/4/2014 12:09:43 AM
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<< if the USD went back on the gold standard, it would result in a huge deflationary spiral.. Otherwise known as "Depression".. ;)

Churchill did the very same thing after WWI, but keep the exchange value at pre-war parity... The result, huge deflation..>>

James Rickards contends that Churchill's only mistake was going back to the pre-WWI price of gold which was too low and therefore constrained the money supply, which was indeed deflationary.
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