The Babylonians appear to be the first to use receipts and notes made of paper, but the exchange of currencies occurred long before the Babylonians.
Early trade was done through a barter system and was soon replaced with an object of value being tallied up to equal the value of goods in exchange. Gold and silver eventually became the standard object of value in exchange for goods. Traders in the Middle Ages used an I.O.U. as a means of exchange which finally led to the creation of modern currencies.
Before World War I, currencies were based on a gold exchange. Paper money was valued on a backup of gold. Sometimes, in a panic, investors would appear in mass to exchange their currency for gold. In those cases, the economy would go bust. When the gold standard was eliminated in 1931 after the Great Depression, Forex Trading became almost non-existent.
Economist John Maynard Kaynes recommended a currency based on a world reserve, but in July of 1944,through a United States initiative, it was decided to base currency value on the United States Dollar, which was valued at $35.00 an ounce in gold.
This arrangement of currency value based on the United States Dollar began faltering in the 1960s and finally tumbled in the 1970s.
President Richard Nixon suspended this system in August of 1971 because of the United States Dollars unsuitability as basis of value as a result of American trade deficits and budgetary woes.
With the introduction of the Euro in 2002 after the implementation of the European Monetary System in 1979, the European economy tottered for a time until stability was finally imposed with the signing of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty which established the EURO as currency across Europe in member nations of the European Union. The EURO became a strong currency and impacted the monetary exchange globally.
With the volatility of currencies in the Third World adding to the mix, investors have become more enamored of Forex Trading so much so that currency exchange has become the largest investment market in the global economy spreading quickly across the world particularly quickly
through the Internet
That's all for today. Next Post we will talk about the importance of Forex Education. See you then.
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