[expat_panama]

Gold may be worth owning, but it’s not that easy to spend. Need a loaf of bread and a half gallon of milk?

Let's be glad gold's not money.  If it were then we'd be dealing with 32% inflation since last Oct.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Let's be glad gold's not money. If it were then we'd be dealing with 32% inflation since last Oct

Uh...if gold were money your pile of greenish Federal Reserve Notes would be worth a lot less since last October, but the price of goods in gold would not have changed much at all.