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The Gold Standard. William McKinley 25 th US President Assassinated Sept. 14, 1901. The Gold Standard. William Jennings Bryan - McKinley’s Opponent i n 1896 Election The Cross of Gold Speech. “Cross of Gold” Speech. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Gold Standard
William McKinley25th US President
Assassinated Sept. 14, 1901
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The Gold Standard
William Jennings Bryan- McKinley’s Opponent
in 1896 Election
The Cross of Gold Speech
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“Cross of Gold” Speech“You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country……
“…we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/williamjenningsbryan1896dnc.htm
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The Gold Standard
Crucifixion of Labor
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Gold Did Control Inflation
www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/qb050302.pdf
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Fig. 19-1: The Macro-Trilemma (Impossible Trinity)
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Hume’s ‘Specie Flow’ MechanismDavid Hume, 1711-1776
Empiricist Philosophy
and Monetary Theory
MV = PY
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But Specie-Flow Muddied-Up byThe “Rules of the Game” – Central Bank Mediation
• When gold reserves low, CBs should decrease Ms• Sell Bonds, reduce Ms, increase R, draw in Gold
• When gold reserves high, CBs should• Buy Bonds, increase Ms, decrease R, drive out Gold
• But Gold Surplus countries comfortable, no political push for stimulus.
• Analogous to position of Germany in Eurozone today.• Comfortable position makes it harder for other countries
to achieve surplus.
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Gold Standard (1870-1913): Record onUnemployment – No Big Diff.
Krugman et. al. note: “The U.S. unemployment rate was 6.8% on average from 1890 to 1913, but it was less than 5.7% on average from 1946 to 1992.”
But note: UE 1948 to 2007 = 5.6%.UE 1948 to 2013 (I) = 5.9%.
And UE 1869 to 1890 = 4.8% (J.R. Vernon, 1994, Jou. of
Macroeconomics)
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Bretton Woods System (1948-1973)Fundamental Assymetries
• All major countries pegged to US Dollar – no independent Monetary policy.
• All other countries ‘import US inflation.’
• Growth of Trade and accumulation of Dollars meant more Dollars than Gold.
• Dollar tied to Gold, $35 per ounce – until 1971.
• 1973, most currencies go ‘managed float.’
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Importing US Inflation
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IS-LM Framework with Fixed vs. Flexible Exchange Rates:
• Fiscal Stimulus powerful under Fixed Exchange Rates, since Monetary Policy must be Accommodative
• Monetary Stimulus powerful under Flexible Exchange Rates, since Fiscal Policy must be Accommodative.
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IS-LM, Fixed Rates: M accommodates since E (and R) fixed
R_2
1 3
LM1 LM2 IS1 IS2
Y
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IS-LM, Flex Rates: Change in R and E drive IS
R
_1 3
2
LM1 LM2 IS1 IS2
Y