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The Problem With the Gold Standard
When we were on a gold standard, if governments wanted to spend money, they needed gold. It was an honest system and it was disciplined on politicians. Now the politicians don't want to be disciplined any more than teenagers want to chaperone at the problem. They want to do a lot of stuff that the chaperone won't allow. To your point about individual prices, you can't confuse prices individually. We'll go up and down based on the supply and demand.