Instead of inflation, gold causes a financial crisis just because its price fluctuates. That’s not better.
Edit: typo correction
It’s price only fluxuates based on availability, and we’re on a finite planet. The real problem would be environmental regulations regarding gold recycling at that point.
We just discovered possibly the largest deposit of gold ever, just a few days ago. You could not have picked a worse time to push for a gold standard
Man, gold bugs are dumb as shit, aren’t they? I haven’t run into them in the wild very often since cryptocurrency took off, but the Ron Paul brigade used to be all over. At least tankies agree that the means of production ought to be seized by the workers (however bad they are at working towards that goal in practice).
