Brexit, Gold and Harold Wilson’s ‘Pound in Your Pocket’, 50 Years On

How the 1967 devaluation of Sterling killed the GOLD Standard…   THIS WEEKEND will mark 50 years since Harold Wilson’s infamous devaluation of Sterling, writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.   Hoping to cut the trade deficit by making imports dearer and exports cheaper, the Labour prime minister claimed that the “Pound in your pocket” hadn’t […]