Full Article: The logic of a modern gold standard
By: Gold Money
In last week’s Insight, I analysed the current geopolitical situation and concluded that it was now in the interest of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to break from the US dollar completely, by establishing a new monetary and banking systemi. By linking the yuan and rouble to gold, the SCO’s principal currencies would be insulated from manipulation by means of dollar currency rates, and their use as a weapon to undermine the Sino-Russian partnership. This article addresses some of the practical difficulties of establishing such a sound monetary system.
A return to sound money will require a radical reform of financial markets, as well as the laws and regulations under which banks and investment houses work. The weaknesses of the current fiat-money system must be identified and understood by reforming governments. It also amounts to no less than discarding the entire evolution of mainstream economic thinking that has evolved in the welfare-states since the 1930s.
Full Article: The logic of a modern gold standard
By: Gold Money
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“What gives us more confidence that the direction for gold from here is likely to be sideways to higher (not sideways to lower) is that positioning is much cleaner than it was,” noted Tom Kendall, head of precious metals sales for ICBC Standard Bank, in a recent report.
