Pretend that a country is on the gold standard and an evil villain succeeds in destroying a significantly large amount of gold. On a graph that relates the purchasing power of money to the quantity of money, show the initial equilibrium and the changes that result from the dastardly deed.

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Pretend that a country is on the gold standard and an evil villain succeeds in destroying a significantly large amount of gold. On a graph that relates the purchasing power of money to the quantity of money, show the initial equilibrium and the changes that result from the dastardly deed.

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