Gold is the antidote to inflationary money. Gold, its advocates have said through the centuries, protects an individual against the damage caused by the disease called inflation that is created by central banks. Gregory Bresiger reviews Peter Bernstein's attempt to debunk: The Power of Gold: History of an Obsession.
Jack Kemp writes in favor of the gold standard. But will his plan bring sound money? Steve Piraino says no.
Greenspan has lowered rates again, but he can't know if he has done the right thing. Under the far-superior gold standard, such questions never came up. Lawrence Reed explains.
30 years after Nixon closed the gold window, it's time to make the dollar convertible again, argues Greg Kaza.
The new Sacagawea "golden dollar" is an afront to the memory of the real gold standard.
Robert Mundell's economics, both praised and criticized from an Austrian perspective. (Comments from scholars)
The 1999 Nobel Laureate in economics on the origins of gold as a monetary instrument, and why it is so reviled by backers of political intervention.
What happened to the gold standard? As Greenspan put it, "following World War I such tight restraints on economies were seen as too inflexible to meet the economic policy goals of the twentieth century." What those policy goals were, Greenspan did not spell out. Let's fill in the blanks.
Yet the biggest obstacle to a gold standard, as always, is intellectual. What these Congressmen need is a good monetary education. Four objections invariably crop up when the subject of gold is raised. Here they are, with some short answers.
