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by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
April 15-April 21, 1933
The highlight of this week, during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Hundred Days of emergency action to save the nation, occurred on April 19. It was on that day that the President made the formal announcement taking the U.S. dollar permanently off the gold standard.
There are several contexts in which to see FDR's move, including the massive political pressure which was being applied to him by citizens and Congressmen who were unable to get credit, and the ongoing raid on the nation's gold supply which was being carried out by major European banks, especially in Amsterdam. But its primary significance is succinctly presented by author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., in his The Coming of the New Deal. Schlesinger wrote this about the shift away from the gold standard:
"It meant that American monetary policy was no longer to be the quasi-automatic function of an international gold standard; that it was to become instead the instrument of conscious national purpose."
To put it in the language of today's analysis by Lyndon LaRouche, what Roosevelt did was to assert the sovereign right of the nation to control its credit, rather than permit the "international marketplace" to determine what credit would be available. And he did it because the general welfare of the population depended upon it. more...
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