Heresy Financial: The Real Reason the World Left the Gold Standard… and Never Went Back

Heresy Financial Mar 10, 2023 Gold has served the role, and function of being money for thousands of years. This is because gold has characteristics that make it perform and function better as money than all its competitors. The difficulty in mining gold and getting it out of the ground meant the supply was limited, keeping inflation in check. It is an easily recognizable color, and its heavy weight and its malleability meant that it was difficult to counterfeit. The relative scarcity of gold meant that you could store a large amount of wealth in a small space. And finally,…