Ready to Return to the Gold Standard?

The amount of gold we would need to buy to EVER return to the gold standard would crush our economy.

See, I keep telling them they need to hurry up on whatever it is they think is going to happen. That's, what, three weeks away?

Not only that, but that would call for stabalizing gold prices in order to use it as a standard.
There's way more profitability in the fluctuations of it as a commodity, so even it it could have been possible, there's, well, no money in it.

I don't even advocate its use as a commodity, frankly. Gold doesn't actually do anything other than be shiny, which makes it entirely an exercise in pure speculation.

Gold is beautiful (I collect coins). There is gold in your device, as it does have many industrial uses.

Aye, these days it gets used as electroplating, which backs up some of its value - but a small amount.

But it's purdy, though silver tends to appeal to my eye better.

All the world's mined gold together would fill merely the base of the Washington Monument.
There's my fun fact for the day.

Didn't know that!

I almost left it out because I figured you already did.