Gold prices reach record highs
Over the past few weeks, gold has regularly crossed its record levels. The value of a one-kilo ingot is now flirting with the 70,000 euro mark. Gold prices thus benefit from the quality of safe haven attributed to gold in the current period full of uncertainties, both at the economic and geopolitical level. They are […]
The Bretton Woods system 1944-1971
The history of Bretton Woods In 1944, at Bretton Woods, an international conference reorganized the international monetary system. One of the important decisions taken on this occasion was to set a fixed parity between gold and the dollar. The greenback becomes the reference standard in place of the precious metal. This equivalence lasted until August […]