January 11, 2011 Reading Time: < 1 minute

“Would-be reformers have tried to devise solutions designed in large part to avoid including gold, but none have caught fire or shown themselves to be as transparent and simple as the gold standard. The only real debate is between paper money and gold-backed money, and it is already getting under way at the highest levels.”
http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/10/gold-dollar-world-bank-opinions-contributors-jeffrey-bell-rich-danker.html?boxes=Homepagechannels

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