First published by Money Metals Exchange here: https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2023/10/16/what-a-gold-standard-does-to-america-002848
<p><img src='https://www.moneymetals.com/uploads/content/what-a-gold-standard-does-to-america-social.jpg'/></p>What would America look like it we return to the gold standard? Would we return to the stone age, would innovation end as Wall Street bankers and government&#039;s paid economists claim? It&#039;s easy to talk about the catastrophes unleashed on humanity by paper money. The permanent inflation, the endless parade of recessions, the exploding debt. The progressive impovertization and the predatory governments who don&#039;t care if the people starve or the cities collapse since, after all, the bureaucrats will still feast.