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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464328603321

Autore

Middelkoop Willem

Titolo

The big reset : gold wars and the financial endgame / / Willem Middelkoop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-485-2220-X

90-485-2219-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

332.4222

Soggetti

Gold standard

Currency convertibility

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

A system reset is imminent. Probably even before 2020, the world's financial system will need to find a different anchor. The dollar has been at the center of the monetary system since the Second World War, but decades of money printing have caused a gradual but relentless dollar devaluation. In a desperate attempt to maintain this dollar system, the United States has waged a secret war on gold since the 1960's. China and Russia have pierced through the American smokescreen around gold and the dollar and are no longer willing to continue lending to the United States. Both countries have been...