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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1030057, member: 22143&quot;]You don&#039;t understand.&nbsp; By relaxed I mean the definition of the dollar started to include currency that wasn&#039;t based in metal.&nbsp; The US government had issued complete fiat currency during the Civil War (in order to pay for it) and this money still circulated along side the gold and silver dollars.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What is missing from the chart above is how that ratio calculated.&nbsp;&nbsp; I assume it was with the present &quot;concept&quot; of the dollar since the metal based definition has been gone for close to 100 years.&nbsp; With that in mind &quot;relaxed&quot; means the dollar was no longer defined completely by metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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