The renowned Depression era British economist John Maynard Keynes gave a lecture in Dublin in April 1933 on the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that America was abandoning the gold standard – - the 1913 Federal Reserve Act provided that at least 40% of currency notes issued had to be backed by gold.
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