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The best example of something is often called the "gold standard." It sets the standard against which other things are    (1)    . In economics, the term describes how major trading nations once used gold to set currency values and exchange rates. Many nations    (2)    to use the gold standard until the last century.
In the United States, people could exchange paper money for gold from the eighteen seventies until nineteen thirty-three. Then-President Richard Nixon finally    (3)    the dollar from the value of gold in nineteen seventy-one. From time to time, some    (4)    call for a return to the gold standard.
But in nineteen seventy eight, the International Monetary Fund ended an official gold price. The IMF also ended the required use of gold in    (5)    with its member countries.
Since that time, gold prices have grown. But the growth was uneven. Prices -- uncorrected for inflation – continue       (6)       . Gold is trading above one thousand six hundred dollars an ounce.  An ounce is about twenty-eight grams.
But people keep buying.  Some people are "gold bugs." These are investors who say people should buy gold to       (7)       .
People have valued gold for thousands of years. The soft, dense metal polishes to a bright yellow shine and resists      (8)       . It makes a good material for money, political power and, more recently, electrical power. If you own a device like a mobile phone or a computer, you might own a little gold in the wiring.
The gold standard was the subject of one of the       (9)       in American political history. It took place at the eighteen ninety-six Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
William Jennings Bryan wanted the country to use both gold and silver as money.    (10)               Here is Bryan reading his speech much later, in nineteen twenty-one.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
The speech made William Jennings Bryan famous. He was a presidential candidate three times. But he never won.