This page is supposed to be a conversation starter, I think. You present the page to someone, then get them interested in the mystery so you can tell them what happened.

I don't think there's any doubt the conclusion you're supposed to reach is that it supports an Austrian economics view about the negative effects of our current monetary regime, and de-linking the USD from gold.

Monaco won the European Song Contest. Very clearly that is the reason the economic world goes weird after 1971.

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