THIS IS THE PRIMARY ARTICLE

Link: A review of Warren Coats’ new book.
(see a list of his articles and books)

ADDITIONAL LINKS of Interest:

Stronger currencies despite central bank policies to weaken

Gold as a Parallel Currency Shows Promise in Foreign Exchange transactions, using the technology of a Blockchain.

Why Dollar-Alternatives Are Non-Starters, e.g. the SDR.

The Appeal of the Gold Standard

The appeal of the Gold Standard is that classic image of the Gold Coin in the minds of people. It is a concrete mental picture. Our paper money system is something else. People know the Federal Reserve dollars are slowly losing value (“inflating”). The gold coin you see in your mind’s eye is more than just a physical object; it is a belief in permanence, a belief in objective reality (and in some sense, “natural law” i.e. chemistry, mechanics).

Economists would want to promise a “Stable Price Level” as a monetary standard. It is not believable. The Federal Reserve cannot even “manage expectations” about their plans for interest rates in 2016. Seeking this elusive ideal, government “planning” crowds out financial planning by individual families and businesses, because “the language of future prices/values” becomes fuzzy. The ideal of their success – a “stable price level” – is not believable (another example, perhaps, of believing in unicorns).

[ from the page on this site, “Gold as a Parallel Currency,” — continuing to “A Modest Proposal” — Gold kilogram 50-yr.Treasury bonds. ]