Returning to a gold/silver standard for just international commerce, let alone domestic commerce world over, can be accomplished only by deflating the prices of these metals several fold. Exactly who that will benefit is anybody's guess. It is possible that those who are in control of the current monetary system are themselves sitting on huge stock piles of these metals and a return to that standard would be again as a conspiracy engineered by the same people. When the US left the gold standard under Nixon everyone would have thought that was the end of the US$ as the world's reserve currency. Very few would have guessed that the exact people who imposed the oil embargo against the US would prop up the US$ as the reserve currency, by pricing oil in US$.



It is silly to assume that the international monetary system until now has been manipulated, but somehow will be controlled by the market in future. The manipulators know everything that can be discussed here.



Quite likely the US$ will be retired for international commerce, but will not be replaced by gold. It will be replaced by an international trading currency that is not the domestic currency of any state and whose volume will be controlled by an international agency.