  Trading a quiet forex market likely to breakout  Question: How
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Upside/downside ratio spreads  Before World War I, most national
currencies featured convertibility to gold. At times, this could
act as a drag on the economy. If an economy became vastly more
productive and the gold convertibility feature prevented
commensurate monetary growth, then economic growth would be
stunted or even reversed. For all of its flaws, the gold
standard did prevent runaway inflation of the sort that occurred
in Germany under the Weimar Republic. That inflation ushered in
the rule of Adolf Hitler. Great Britain abandoned the gold
standard in 1931, and the United States followed suit in 1933
because of its severe economic contraction.  Toward the end of
World War II in July of 1944, all 44 of the allied nations
gathered in Bretton Woods, N.H. to hammer out a new
international monetary system. Each currency’s value was tied to
a specific amount of gold. The U.S. dollar was