gold standard Archives - Rethinking the Dollar

Russia’s Putin Declares An End to Western Currencies

Mar 30, 2022 | Economic Collapse

Russian President Vladimir Putin is predicting that the world will move away from the U.S.-dominated financial system after Washington, along with Western governments, seized his country’s currency assets as part of their sanctions for invading Ukraine. In a video...

Will Gold be worth more or less in the future depending on Inflation?

Jun 15, 2021 | Gold

Will Gold be worth more or less in the future depending on Inflation? People are asking this about Silver as well. Will inflation push the price higher or will it go up but still only buy the same stuff due to inflation.

“The Great Reset” Already Happened

Nov 13, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The global elites’ techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is addressed as a future project. Too bad it...

Your Personal Gold Standard

Oct 27, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Elites are extremely hostile to the idea that gold should have any role whatsoever in the monetary system. To them, gold is truly a barbarous relic, as John Maynard Keynes was supposed to have said. You might as well propose bringing back the horse and buggy. Except...

Printing Currency at a “Constant” or “Stable” Rate Won’t Prevent Boom-Bust Cycles

Oct 20, 2020 | Economic Collapse

A pure gold standard is immune from boom-bust cycles, since on the pure gold standard an increase in the money supply does not trigger an… According to Milton Friedman, the key cause of the business cycles is the fluctuations in the growth rate of money supply....