For instance, the Fed hiked at the end of the 60s, when the Vietnam War was in full swing and the military-industrial complex was making billions with the war economy going full tilt. However, with the end of Bretton Woods and the dollars peg to goldand the U.S.-Saudi alliance in the 70s, the petrodollar was born. The Iran hostage crisis had occurred at the end of Carters administration and ended with the election of Reagan. By the 1980s, the price of gold had risen some 300% from its 1970s high of $200 per ounce. Throughout the 80s and 90s, gold would ride a channel around $400 before dipping prior to a stratospheric launch in the 200s to more than $1800. All of this was courtesy of the inflationary practices of the Feds interest rate manipulation practices, bond bubble, its money printing (devaluation of the…
U.S. ECONOMIC PERFORMANCES IN THE PAST 5 YEARS U.S Economic Performance in the past 5 years Major indicator of healthy state of an economy is the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate. The GDP growth rate reveals the performances of an economy. United States is one of the richest country in the world and "has the largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world." (Jabir, 2009 P. 3171). The country total
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