Bretton Woods era
Gold was fixed against the dollar until the early 1970s. The relevant story is how a fixed-price system constrained both monetary policy and reserve management.
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Gold Price History
Gold price history is most useful when read as a sequence of regimes rather than a single trend line. Each regime answered a different macro question.
Free-float and the 1970s
After delinking from the dollar, gold repriced sharply as inflation, oil shocks, and currency uncertainty drove demand for a non-yielding reserve.
Modern central-bank era
The 2000s reflation, 2008 crisis response, and renewed central-bank buying built a different regime. Real yields, dollar direction, and reserve diversification dominate the modern story.
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