Suppose that the United States is on a bimetallic standard at $30 to one ounce of gold and $2 for one ounce of silver.If new silver mines open and flood the market with silver,
A) only the silver currency will circulate.
B) only the gold currency will circulate.
C) no change will take place since citizens could exchange their gold currency for silver currency at any time.
D) none of the options.
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Q2: Suppose that country A and country B
Q3: One potential drawback of the gold standard
Q4: The monetary system of bimetallism is unstable.Due
Q5: An "international" gold standard can be said
Q6: Prior to the 1870s,both gold and silver
Q7: In the 1850s the French franc was
Q8: The first full-fledged gold standard
A)was not established
Q9: In the United States,bimetallism was adopted by
Q10: The international monetary system can be defined
Q11: Gresham's Law states that
A)bad money drives good
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