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Executive Order 11615Revoked

Providing for Stabilization of Prices, Rents, Wages, and Salaries

Richard Nixon
August 15, 1971
36 FR 15727

Summary

Imposed a 90-day freeze on wages, prices, and rents across the United States as part of Nixon's New Economic Policy to combat inflation. Part of the broader decision to end the gold standard convertibility of the dollar.

Topics

economic policyinflationwage controlsprice controls