[PGR88]

A gold standard plus continued Congressional overspending would just drain our gold reserves down to zero.

But oddly, that never happened in the 19th century

[Leaning Right]

I’m in favor of some kind of gold standard (although I’d prefer a balanced budget amendment more).

But a gold standard has to be in place before Congress starts to wildly overspend (and throw dollars everywhere), not after. So that horse has left the barn. That’s the way I see it. And since I studied chemistry and not economics, I well could be wrong.