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Richard Nixon in 1971 abandoned Bretton Woods by suspending the dollar’s convertibility to gold.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

On the Sunday evening of Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a wage-and-price freeze, an import surcharge, and the end of the dollar’s last link to convertibility into gold at $35 an ounce.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Some stablecoin issuers partner with asset managers to offer instant convertibility between stablecoins and yield-bearing tokenized assets such as tokenized U.S.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

"With convertibility inflation went to almost zero," Galante said.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023

The featurelessness of money, its universal convertibility, gives human beings a latitude of choice and self-expression in its spending that is inconceivable without its use.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)