[Boogieman]

‘New York Times item which reported that 40 out of 40 “leading economists” said that a gold standard system “would not improve the lives of average Americans.”’

These same economists are perfectly happy with a system that led to the great depression, the great recession, constant inflation, soaring national debt, etc.

[babble-on]

We had a gold standard in this country for a long time.

In that time we also had depressions, recessions, inflation and soaring national debt.

[DiogenesLamp]

These same economists are perfectly happy with a system that led to the great depression, the great recession, constant inflation, soaring national debt, etc.

It wasn't the gold standard that led to the great depression, is was a too free lending policy.