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Capital Account Rebalancing
A nasty reminder tariffs slow growth, global imbalances and gold in the '70s and now, the broadest measure of growth was weak in 1H25, financial earnings preview
Figure 2: US gold reserves fell rapidly through the ‘60s as Germany and Japan rebuilt their export capacity and resisted the revaluation aspects of Bretton Woods.