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Abandoning the standard to fund the war
To fund operations during World War I, the United Kingdom was forced to end convertibility of Bank of England notes to gold starting in 1914. By the end of the war Britain was on a series of fiat currency regulations, which monetized Postal Money Orders and Treasury Notes (later called banknotes, not to be confused with US Treasury notes). The United States took similar measures. After the war, Germany, losing much of its gold in reparations, could no longer coin gold “Reichsmarks,” and moved to paper currency, although the Weimar Republic later introduced the “rentenmark,” and later the gold-backed reichsmark in an effort to control hyperinflation.
In the UK the pound was returned to the gold standard in 1925, by a somewhat reluctant Winston Churchill. Although a higher gold price and significant inflation had followed the WWI ending of the gold standard, Churchill returned to the standard at the pre-war gold price. For five years prior to 1925 the gold price was managed downward to the pre-war level, causing deflation throughout those countries using the Pound Sterling. This deflation reached across the remnants of the British Empire everywhere the Pound Sterling was still used as the primary unit of account. In the UK the standard was again abandoned on September 20, 1931. Sweden abandoned the gold standard in October 1931, the US in 1933, and other nations were, to one degree or another, forced off the gold standard.
Allora suppongo che avrai capito da solo perchè i prezzi sono calati invece che aumentare. Sebbene quello stralcio non sia sufficiente per capirlo appieno.
Ragiona in termini di domanda e offerta invece che come un bottegaio...
Se diminuisce l'offerta di moneta, ne aumenta il valore e perciò calano i prezzi.
L'aumento del tasso d'interesse è un effetto della riduzione dell'offerta, non la causa della diminuzione dei prezzi.