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lonely bird

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39. Gold standard isn't coming back
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 08:31 AM
15 hrs ago

At least not as a global basis.

There isn’t enough gold in the world. And it would have to be convertible which would result in the same problem that caused Nixon to close the gold window. Countries would use it as a nuclear economic weapon.

It might possibly be used by some countries internally but even then I doubt it.

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