The U.S. abandoned the gold standard in to curb inflation and prevent foreign nations from overburdening the system by redeeming their dollars for gold.

Well , now looking at the chart above from 1971, you start to see the bend in the US Money Supply (M2).

That abandoning of the gold standard has put your money (really it’s now fiat currency since 1971) on a path of erosion to where are US Dollars are now worth 13 TIMES LESS!