All posts tagged "Gold Standard"

WASHINGTON — As Republican presidential hopefuls entertain calls to fix the value of the dollar to the price of gold, a panel of leading economists on Wednesday roundly panned the idea of a return to the gold standard.

[rebelmouse-image 24749935 original_size="203x152" expand=1]Andrew Leonard has a piece up at Salon about the gold standard and the people who obsess over it. It's amusing, but his read on why people obsess over the gold standard is, I believe, somewhat off.