By Stephen Zogopoulos, USNN World News The Shadow of Bretton Woods and the Future of the Dollar In 1944, as World War II was drawing to a close, delegates from 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to establish a new international monetary system. The result was the […]
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Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element.