{"id":11731,"date":"2019-06-08T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T08:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2019-06-08T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T08:25:35","slug":"the-imbalances-of-the-bretton-woods-system-between-1965-and-1973-us-inflation-the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-imbalances-of-the-bretton-woods-system-between-1965-and-1973-us-inflation-the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The imbalances of the Bretton Woods System between 1965 and 1973: US inflation, the elephant in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bordo<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-teaser\">\n<p>Growing international imbalances are widely understood to have led Nixon to end gold convertibility in 1971. This column argues that a key fundamental underlying these imbalances was the rising inflation in the US, in turn created by US macroeconomic policies. President Nixon blamed the rest of the world instead of correcting US monetary and fiscal policies. It also identifies similarities between the imbalances of the 1960s and 1970s and those of today, especially regarding fiscal policies and the use of tariff protection as a strategic tool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:\u00a0<\/strong>Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/imbalances-bretton-woods-system-between-1965-and-1973\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bordo Growing international imbalances are widely understood to have led Nixon to end gold convertibility in 1971. This column argues that a key fundamental underlying these imbalances was the rising inflation in the US, in turn created by US macroeconomic policies. President Nixon blamed the rest of the world instead of correcting US monetary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}