[choxi]

What do you mean? I thought the US dollar was fixed to gold between WWII and 1971:

> On 15 August 1971, the United States ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

[JumpCrisscross]

> thought the US dollar was fixed to gold between WWII and 1971

The dollar was convertible into gold at a fixed rate. We still printed more dollars than there was gold.