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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Our money is not measured by Gold—Gold is measured by it.”

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Our money is not measured by Gold—Gold is measured by it.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull asserts that the value of gold is determined by the currency rather than the other way around.

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