t.c. w. groups komal three kumar and bank of new york mellon michael wolff uk they were asked. with the risks from currency war war and how to stop it this week omar said that he thought the gold standard if we brought the gold standard back it would end this currency war and it would be no different to how good it was he said he said it would be as good as it was during one hundred forty five to one nine hundred seventy one we were on an international gold standard post bretton woods the us dollar was backed by gold on international trade and it was good times then he said quote it worked the world was in prosperity there was economic growth and there was clearly certainty in terms of what exchange rates were well i've never bet off a gold standard the experiments are citing seventy one of global fia money trading against each other as failing and are going to go back to what was in place for thousands of years ago standard but i also think it was ninety seventy one when nixon went off the gold standard what it was was the disarming of the population who had to work for a livi