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The first example was the "inherited a mess" quote or maybe sound bite or catch phrase with no hint as to who said it or the source of that generalization. Perhaps this can be sorted from original source references, but if Nixon said this, or this was a press catch phrase, then that should be in the text. At least it is sourced so I'm hoping a good edit for style can improve the article covering a poorly covered period given the amount of history being made. Mulp ( talk) 00:24, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
In 1970, Nixon floated the dollar, no longer holding to the fixed $35 gold exchange rate fiction. This had a big impact on oil economy nations which were forced to price in dollars which were quickly devalued. OPEC responded with price hikes to restore real prices. Not sure of Nixon's coupling of his actions floating the dollar and this act, but it is context. Mulp ( talk) 00:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm a little surprised that there is no mention of the fact that the Internal Revenue Service was given responsibility for receiving and investigating complaints filed by the public against any entity who raised rents, prices, etc.
I remember it well. My first government job was as a Statistical Reports Clerk for the office in Burlington, Vermont. Things happened fast enough that creation of the function brought in a very early and very cumbersome fax machine, the first one any of us had ever seen.
I can't say I know enough of the actual history of the task within the agency to write about it, except that various auditors and investigators were pulled from regular duties to staff the function.
-- Mfwills ( talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
I see this fairly often, where a page has a certain page title, but many associated topics redirect to the page as primary reference, which are not prominently treated, and actually pretty hard to tease out.
In a quick check for inbound redirects, I see these three which are not aliases for the main topic:
The Pay Board and the Price Commission are like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, conjoined in the mouth, entirely distinct entities on the ground.
After finding Nixon shock (which I added to the see also section) it's clear that this page does not provide nearly enough context around Bretton Woods and the collapsing system of international currency valuation.
With probably five distinct definitional jobs to perform, it's not such a great tactic to delegate the lead into "Background" and "Administration" as this page presently does.
I've made a few changes to make the lead stand better alone in its multiple duties, but I'll leave the rest for the next guy or gal. — MaxEnt 23:05, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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The first example was the "inherited a mess" quote or maybe sound bite or catch phrase with no hint as to who said it or the source of that generalization. Perhaps this can be sorted from original source references, but if Nixon said this, or this was a press catch phrase, then that should be in the text. At least it is sourced so I'm hoping a good edit for style can improve the article covering a poorly covered period given the amount of history being made. Mulp ( talk) 00:24, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
In 1970, Nixon floated the dollar, no longer holding to the fixed $35 gold exchange rate fiction. This had a big impact on oil economy nations which were forced to price in dollars which were quickly devalued. OPEC responded with price hikes to restore real prices. Not sure of Nixon's coupling of his actions floating the dollar and this act, but it is context. Mulp ( talk) 00:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm a little surprised that there is no mention of the fact that the Internal Revenue Service was given responsibility for receiving and investigating complaints filed by the public against any entity who raised rents, prices, etc.
I remember it well. My first government job was as a Statistical Reports Clerk for the office in Burlington, Vermont. Things happened fast enough that creation of the function brought in a very early and very cumbersome fax machine, the first one any of us had ever seen.
I can't say I know enough of the actual history of the task within the agency to write about it, except that various auditors and investigators were pulled from regular duties to staff the function.
-- Mfwills ( talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
I see this fairly often, where a page has a certain page title, but many associated topics redirect to the page as primary reference, which are not prominently treated, and actually pretty hard to tease out.
In a quick check for inbound redirects, I see these three which are not aliases for the main topic:
The Pay Board and the Price Commission are like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, conjoined in the mouth, entirely distinct entities on the ground.
After finding Nixon shock (which I added to the see also section) it's clear that this page does not provide nearly enough context around Bretton Woods and the collapsing system of international currency valuation.
With probably five distinct definitional jobs to perform, it's not such a great tactic to delegate the lead into "Background" and "Administration" as this page presently does.
I've made a few changes to make the lead stand better alone in its multiple duties, but I'll leave the rest for the next guy or gal. — MaxEnt 23:05, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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