[DOC] [TLE] Nixon shock - Wikipedia [PAR] The Nixon shock was a series of economic measures undertaken by United 
States President Richard Nixon in 1971, the most significant of which was the 
unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States 
dollar to gold. ... Other currencies were fixed to the dollar, and the dollar was 
pegged to gold. [DOC] [TLE] Nixon Ends Convertibility of US Dollars to Gold and Announces ... [PAR] President Richard Nixon's actions in 1971 to end dollar convertibility to gold and 
... of the US gold window in August 1971, the Federal Reserve relied on 
currency ... their dollars for gold; in effect, the international monetary system 
turned into a... [DOC] [TLE] Econimica: Exactly What Did Nixon Say About Dollar Convertability ... [PAR] Apr 22, 2015 ... Sunday, August 15th of 1971 President Nixon made a startling announcement. ... 
suspend temporarily the convertability of the dollar into gold or other reserves 
assets. ... severed the conversion of US dollars to gold and unilaterally ended ... 
in the US (that would typically result from diluting a currency) or the... [DOC] [TLE] Nixon, Gold and Oil - Ahead of The Herd [PAR] The value of gold being fixed by law at 35 US dollars an ounce made the value ... 
agreed to peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar, the only currency strong 
enough to ... The commitment of the U.S. government to convert dollars into gold 
at that ... Bretton Woods collapsed in 1971 when Nixon severed (known as the 
Nixon... [DOC] [TLE] August 15, 1971: A Date Which Has Lived In Infamy - Forbes [PAR] Aug 14, 2011 ... In their impossibly good book Money, Markets, and Sovereignty (2009), Benn ... 
in which humanity has not consistently based its currency in metal, ... Ever since 
President Richard M. Nixon announced forty years ago today, on August 15, 
1971, that the U.S. would no longer officially trade dollars for gold, we... [DOC] [TLE] Nixon and the End of the Bretton Woods System, 19711973 ... [PAR] On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon announced his New Economic 
... the external values of foreign currencies were fixed in relation to the U.S. dollar
, ... the third, Nixon directed the suspension of the dollar's convertibility into gold. [DOC] [TLE] What Didn't Change When Nixon Cut the Gold Link [PAR] 15, 1971. The 37th president had just announced the U.S. would temporarily 
close the gold window  ending the convertibility of dollars into gold that had ... 
Because the dollar remained the world's reserve currency  a privilege that, 
four ... privilege risked emptying the United States' huge stockpile of monetary 
metal. [DOC] [TLE] August 15, 1971 Richard Nixon suspends the Dollar to Gold ... [PAR] Aug 15, 1971 ... United States President Richard Nixon's address to the nation announcing the "
temporary" suspension of the dollar's convertibility into gold. ... The closing of the 
gold window signified the end of the Bretton Woods ... protect the dollar from the 
attacks of international money speculators. ..... OTHER METALS... [DOC] [TLE] Preparing for the Collapse of the Petrodollar System - FTMDaily.com [PAR] October 17, 2016 | Weekly Metals Report: Calm Before the Storm .... On August 
15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon shocked the global economy when he 
officially ended the international convertibility from U.S. dollars into gold, thereby 
... PETRODOLLAR DEFINITION | The money that oil exporting nations receive 
from... [DOC] [TLE] What Is A Dollar? | Ryan Jordan | FINANCIAL SENSE [PAR] Aug 8, 2011 ... The result was the Continental Dollar, a currency experiment which lasted from 
1775 to 1781. ... banknotes in the U.S. could not be exchanged into precious 
metal. ... The United States would not return to convertibility until 1879. ... Finally, 
on August 15, 1971, President Nixon ended the last vestiges of... [DOC] [TLE] World News: Nixon Shock - Gold Standard [PAR] Gold Standard Now: What Gold Standard currency money is, why US ... On 
August 15, 1971, US president Richard Nixon floated the dollar and ended its 
convertibility into ... 15 August 1971 that he was imposing

Question: In 1971 President Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. currency into this metal
Answer: gold