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 gold standard is a profile in power. So LBJ conspired to get rid of it. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) The gold standard did not prevent the hyperinflation of the 1970s, or the ...
Once upon a time, you could reach into your wallet, pull out paper money known as a gold certificate and ask your bank teller to please redeem its value in gold. The advantage to such a system? It was ...
Gold is seeing renewed interest from Americans seeking a safe haven amid volatile global economic conditions. New investors ...
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 ...
As they met last week in Washington, delegates to the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund studiously avoided discussion of one subject: a change in the world’s gold policy.