The Destiny of Gold

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Why Gold?....Pages 1-8
A Symbol of Stability....Pages 9-14
Campaigns Against Gold....Pages 15-22
Departure from the Gold Standard....Pages 23-28
End of Gold’s Domestic Monetary Role....Pages 29-35
The Gold Exchange Standard....Pages 36-41
The ‘Gold Insolvency Standard’....Pages 42-47
The Bretton Woods System....Pages 48-54
Monetary Permissiveness....Pages 55-60
Growth-Hysteria and Environment....Pages 61-69
The Market Price of Gold....Pages 70-77
The Purchasing Power of Gold....Pages 78-83
The Franco-American ‘Cold War’....Pages 84-90
Gold and the Soviet Union....Pages 91-95
The ‘Sour-Grapes Complex’....Pages 96-101
Proposed Substitutes for Gold....Pages 102-107
The Limitations of ‘Paper-Gold’....Pages 108-112
The Case for a Higher Price of Gold....Pages 113-118
Prospects of Gold....Pages 119-124
Back Matter....Pages 125-128