Quote Originally Posted by Rick Scarf View Post
Atmoscheer, I realize you're trolling me but you obviously haven't read much on the subject. The idea of a gold standard is not to burn our paper dollars and start carrying around gold chunks and jewelers eye loupes, the idea is to have paper money like we have now, except it is actually backed by something, held in reserve in vaults, to make it tough for the money supply to be expanded by simply printing more money. Gold has been the traditional "something" through time, hence the call by some for a return to the gold standard.
urm I don't think atmosfear's poking fun at the idea of carrying gold around, pretty sure he's making a reference to the economic versatility of fiat money