By What Currencies are Backed by Gold? Historically one of the essential features of most economies has been gold. A precious metal that has been utilized as currency since 600 BC — starting as physical coins and ultimately turning into the gold standard where gold in backed paper currency in the society. While the gold standard protects the currency from certain risks as hyper-inflation or general loss in value due to the faith in the government, it also puts limits on the government to stimulate the economy as they can’t just print up money and give it away (or buy…
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