Foreign Exchange Markets

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This paper discusses foreign exchange markets, focusing on the gold standard. The paper describes the gold standard as it was used in the past and discusses whether it is still a relevant and useful option in the present. The paper begins by discussing how money functions today in a foreign exchange market without a gold standard. It suggests that although the gold standard may have had its place during the 19th and early 20th centuries, it is not a fungible ideal in today's commodity markets.

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Foreign Exchange Markets

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"On one hand, this might seem like a positive attribute of the gold standard, as the tremendous volatility that exists in all the major currency markets today would be curtailed. But the gold standard would also mean that no nation's central bank could hope to manipulate the nation's monetary supply with any great dexterity in the short term, resulting, quite often, in severe economic shocks. The major benefit to the gold standard is that it can prevent long-term inflation in a country because there is no impetus to print money or to create money beyond a certain level of gold reserve stores. But, because "economies under the gold standard were so vulnerable to real and monetary shocks, prices were highly unstable in the short run." (Moffatt, 2006)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Grabianowski, Ed. (2006) "The Gold Standard." How Currency Works: Howstuffworks. Retrieved 26 Feb 2006 at http://money.howstuffworks.com/currency7.htm
• Grabianowski, Ed. (2006) "Inflation." How Currency Works: Howstuffworks. Retrieved 26 Feb 2006 at http://money.howstuffworks.com/currency9.htm
• Grabianowski, Ed. (2006) "Perceptions of Value." How Currency Works: Howstuffworks. Retrieved 26 Feb 2006 at http://money.howstuffworks.com/currency8.htm
• Moffatt, Mike. (2006) "The Gold Standard." About.com. Retrieved 26 Feb 2006 at http://economics.about.com/cs/money/a/gold_standard_p.htm

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