When the Gold Standard Lost Its Lustre [Archive.org URL]

“Today gold is redundant; the bond market has replaced it as the ultimate restraint on central banks’ temptation to use monetary expansion as a short cut to prosperity. And, increasingly, inflation targets and institutions such as independent central banks create lastingly stable money. There are few certainties in international finance. But here is one: gold as part of the international monetary system is dead.”

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