gold standard

During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover Wall Street Crash of 1929 happened. Hoover is criticized for doing almost nothing to stop the resulting Great Depression. Britain end it's Great Depression by ending the gold standard. So What if Hoover did same ? POD is that Hoover ends the Gold Standard...

WW1 concluded with a negotiated peace in late 1917/early 1918. In the peace treaty, neither side was required to pay any reparations/indemnities and both sides pledged not to introduce new punitive tariff barriers post-war. The US never entered the war and never provided unsecured loans to...

What if there was not a gold standard in the early 1900s US (it was a hybrid gold/silver system or the modern fiat currency?) I've heard that the gold standard made the Great Depression worse.

This is a rarely (if ever) discussed alternate history scenario or challenge, but one which for a variety of reasons has been of interest to me since long before I joined this site. The challenge is to have the classical gold standard of pre-World War One maintained up to the present day, and...

In the 1960s, the US dollar, which has been the global “reserve currency” under the Bretton Woods system inaugurated at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944, became overvalued due to excessive spending on the Vietnam War and the Great Society, plus chronis US balance-of-trade deficits. The...

Is it plausible for a major world power to not go back to the gold standard after WW1, or to leave it during the 1920s? This could make the Great Depression less disastrous and change the way that international trade and the web of debts between the western powers worked in the interwar period...

So I've been playing around with an alternate history in my head and decided that I needed a place to write it out and discuss it with other history nuts and thankfully I found this forum with a bunch of folks who seem pretty cool. I hope to get to meet you guys. Anyways, here's my idea. I've...