SocraticGadfly: Do goldbugs want a depression?

March 03, 2009

Do goldbugs want a depression?

Bloomberg strongly says they’d better not. Gold is deflationary, plus, much of it today comes from China or Russia, making it a very iffy geopolitical commodity.

We wouldn’t want an oil-standard economy, would we? That’s about how dumb the gold standard is.

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