Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:50:17 -0400 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Subject: Aug. 15, 1971
Please note tomorrow, the 15th, is the 30th anniversary of Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard. Over the weekend, Barron's published a 1200-word commentary I wrote for it, recollecting how I covered the event for the old National Observer. For those of you who were not active in journalism at the time, I think you will find it a useful read. I present it on my website today as a memo to Greenspan.