Mike Maharrey and AIER’s Peter C. Earle explain the gold standard, debunk 7 fiat-money myths, and discuss central bank gold ...

Gold certificates are documents proving gold ownership. Learn about their history as U.S. currency until 1934 and their role in modern gold investment.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / For years, even decades, analysts kept waiting for gold to reclaim its role as the foundation of global money. They predicted a return to a ...

The godfather of modern economics, John Maynard Keynes, dismissed the concept of gold as money—the gold standard—as a “barbarous relic.” Another economics titan, Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman, ...

The gold standard as it existed under the Bretton Woods system until 1971 is likely never coming back. There are a myriad of reasons for this but the most important lie with the US government’s ...

For most of the 182 years between 1789 and 1971, the United States embraced the principle of a dollar linked to gold — at first, at $20.67/oz., and then, after 1933, $35/oz. Nearly every economist ...

Ret. Col. Douglas Macgregor delivered the following monologue on his YouTube channel. Macgregor, a West Point graduate, served as a commander in the Gulf War and Kosovo War. RET. COL. DOUGLAS ...

— -- Talking about the monetary system these days requires using unimaginably large numbers, such as $1 trillion, the total U.S. currency in circulation, and $10.9 trillion, the U.S. government ...

"The gold standard has returned to mainstream U.S. politics for the first time in 30 years," say Robin Harding and Anna Fifeld at The Financial Times. The GOP is preparing to include a "gold ...

Sorry, gold bugs -- Robert Zoellick doesn't want a return to using the metal as a global currency standard, after all. I don't believe you can return to a fixed ...