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To: Toddsterpatriot
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Exactly. The gold standard worked so well that no one uses it anymore.
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The gold standard has its own problems, not the least of which is that there is far too little gold to ‘describe’ today’s actual money supply. To put it another way, if the US were to convert over to a gold-based dollar, the price per ounce would have to dramatically rise from today’s $650-700 range to several thousand dollars. The public would not accept that a few people who were smart enough to hold gold today would be the beneficiaries of such a happenstance gain.

118 posted on 06/21/2007 1:10:01 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat
The gold standard has its own problems, not the least of which is that there is far too little gold to ‘describe’ today’s actual money supply.

I'm glad you understand that fact.

Do you still think inflation will cause a drop in the money supply?

120 posted on 06/21/2007 2:20:13 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so dumb?)
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To: theBuckwheat
The public would not accept that a few people who were smart enough to hold gold today would be the beneficiaries of such a happenstance gain.

LOL, no that's not the reason.

125 posted on 06/21/2007 9:24:16 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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