In both the Nixon and Trump cases, the efforts of Canadian prime ministers – then Pierre Trudeau, now Justin Trudeau – to win ...

referred to as the “Nixon shock,” rocked the world economy. Nixon’s plan would be a success — in the short term. The Dow Jones industrial average would rise a record 32.93 points the day ...

This concentration of trade in one channel, we believe, contains inherent dangers for Canada in that it makes our economy too ...

This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon, a moderately conservative Republican who was a critic of government intervention in the economy.

It has been more than 50 years since the Nixon shock — August 15, 1971, when President Nixon went on national television to announce the historic change that the U.S. dollar would no longer be pegged ...

Bretton Woods II followed the Nixon Shock of 1971, when the US suspended dollar convertibility to gold, leading to the ...