Churchill returns Britain to the gold standard

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 284-286 · open book

  the pound rose to $4.86, while the British price level had not yet fallen to the American price level, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, judging the price level by the exchange rate, believed that it had and went back on the gold standard at that point.

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