This had nothing whatsoever to do with the U.S. going off the gold standard. Remaining on a gold standard became untenable just as Keynes in 1944 said it would become, and it still is of course. There are no countries still on a gold standard and there won't be any in the future.The entire notion of "getting off the gold standard for money"... was partially based upon the notion we should "trust the government to do the right thing"....