Friday, December 25, 2009

Sliding Back to Gold

"So the world has bench-tested the Keynesian theory that gold is a barabrous relic, and found it wanting. ... There are three ways in which the world could move towards a gold standard without actually getting there. ... Second, the world's monetary authorities could start targeting the gold price as part of their monetary management, aiming to keep it within a certain range, thereby preventing excessive monetary expansion and dampening excessive exchange rate fluctuations. A 'hard money [Fed] chairman, for example, worried about the value of the dollar, could seek to keep the gold price between $900 and $1,000", Martin Hutchison (MH) at Prudent Bear, 7 December 2009, link:

I first used MH's phrase "sliding back towards a Gold Standard" almost 30 years ago, suggesting MH's second alternative. However, $1,000 an ounce isn't high enough. See Mike Rozefff's comments about the ZDV of gold.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a dream to think that ZimBen would peg his printing press to anything... especially a price not controlled by his "primary dealers"...

You must be imagining another Chairman at the Fed.

W.C. Varones said...

Merry Christmas, Skep!