While I appreciate the gold bug’s sentiment, gold is simply the other side of the same old coin. There is only ONE REAL WEALTH, and that is people, not gold. All gold standards have failed throughout history in the very same manner as have “fiat” currencies – history is through the eye of the beholder’s bias, I encourage everyone to view both sides of monetary history for what it is – all monies have failed, do we simply repeat a multiple human failure? Isn’t that the definition of insanity?



Recall the specter of the roaring twenties… Who owned the gold? How did credit dollars get so out of control that the Great Depression followed? Were we not on a gold standard then? How many times during periods of gold standards do politicians (in bed with bankers) recast the ratio of gold to paper and why? Has the gold bug myth of mining more gold from the earth as prices rise really worked to control inflation and deflation? Who has it worked for?



Economies are built upon people, not gold… empathy and communications lead to the rule of law, which includes a shared means of exchange. That exchange allows the coming together of monetary, natural, and human capital that then build the infrastructure that support people, not gold. It is people who BUILD wealth, wealth does not just simply exist on its own. What is far more important than WHAT backs money (ultimately only people can) is WHO controls its production and its quantity! This is the realization that civilization is working towards… if we must go through another gold standard on the way to that destination of understanding, then it will bring nothing but pain to all but those who control it – and that is NOT you, nor is it I.



There is only ONE currency that will survive the test of time, and that is a currency based upon MATH and the rule of law that the people uphold via transparency and checks and balances. The math MUST target ZERO PRICE inflation/deflation, and then, and only then, will a stable system be made that can last.



The real store of wealth is the intellect of the human mind, not an arbitrary rare earth element. ENERGY is far more important than minerals and is the ONLY INTRINSIC thing in nature. In fact, modern science (not the crap you and I learned in school and is still be perpetuated) is rapidly finding that all minerals, all matter, literally springs forth from energy. The universe is comprised of ENERGY, everything, all matter including gold, oil, water, and people are energy… we are all simply waves upon the fabric of the universe and we are all connected by it. Gold is simply one state of energy, as is soil, rock, the sun, you, me and everything else. This is the truth that people are on collision course with, all roads lead to the truth.



Again, if humanity must suffer through yet another gold standard, we will have been miserable failures to yet another generation that will have to learn that WHO controls the money is FAR, FAR more important than what backs it. Gold and debt are both controlled by the very same people… control is the key word, they use BOTH gold and debt to control the masses. Ultimately the only real money is backed by the masses, their energy, their creativity, and their imaginations. That is the long-term path that humanity is on.



You, me, and everyone else, should be free to trade gold unrestricted from the manipulations that are occurring now and have occurred throughout history. Gold is THE most manipulated substance on the planet, and has been for as long as it has been used as “a store of wealth.”

communication → empathy

rule-of-law → monetary system