| Gold is perhaps one of the most misunderstood physical assets out there. Below are seven common misconceptions we gathered about gold. 1. The United States Dollar is backed by gold. The U.S. dollar was backed by gold for some time, but is not anymore. After President William McKinley signed the Gold Standard Act in 1900, the U.S. went on a gold standard in which one dollar was convertible to 1.5 g (23.22 grains) of gold.
In early 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt suspended the gold standard with the exception of foreign exchange. In 1971, in the most well-known of the “Nixon Shock” series of actions, President Richard Nixon severed all ties between the U.S. dollar and gold, effectively abolishing the gold standard...........................................Full Article: Source
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