Bretton Woods Structural-Pressure Explanation

The mainstream economic account holding that persistent US balance-of-payments deficits, Vietnam War and Great Society spending, and foreign governments' growing gold-conversion demands made the Bretton Woods peg unsustainable by 1971, forcing Nixon's unilateral suspension rather than any coordinated plan.

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