Is Russia currently on the gold standard? Despite a lot of speculation to the contrary, the answer is no. In early 2022, in an attempt to defend the value of the rouble, the Russian Central Bank said that it would buy gold at 5000 roubles per gram. However all this meant was that the bank […]
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The classical gold standard was the monetary system of the 1870s to 1914. The world’s industrial powers defined their national currencies as a fixed weight of gold and paper money was freely convertible into gold by government and private citizens alike. It was a golden age in many ways as the world experienced a sustained
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Gold has a long history and has been used as money for several thousand years. While not formally part of the money system today, central banks still hold gold, giving it a proximate shadow status in the current system. Of all the elements of the periodic table, gold is the one best suited for use
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Gold is important to the economy and the monetary system because its existence on central bank balance sheets gives fiat currency the credibility that it has. Governments and central banks like to pretend that gold is unimportant and is a relic of the past. This is wrong. While we no longer operate on the gold
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I first became a gold investor because I learned the history of it. I learned about the thousands of years gold has been money. I learned about the classical gold standard, Bretton Woods, how Nixon’s closed the gold window 1971 and how the US still holds 8000 tonnes of gold. I came to understand that
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