Saturday, January 15, 2011

There Is No Getting Around Gold

From Forbes.com:
By Jeffrey Bell and Rich Danker

Money has lacked a golden anchor for 40 years. It has proved a stupendous failure.

Earlier this week Thomas Hoenig, president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, went out of his way to call the gold standard a "very legitimate monetary system." In November, World Bank President Robert Zoellick and Indiana Republican Congressman Mike Pence both called for a serious look at using gold as the centerpiece of international monetary reform.

The fact that a Fed leader, the highest-ranking American official in international economics, and a potential presidential candidate are talking up the gold standard indicates that floating money is running out of political cover, and that the obstacles to gold replacing it are narrowing....read on

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