The latest edition of The Golden Revolution is available from Amazon here https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535608994
Back in 2012 John Wiley and Sons published my first book, The Golden Revolution, the core thesis of which was that a longer-term consequence of the global financial crisis of 2008 would be the remonetization of gold. This would occur initially at the international level, that is, as a mean to settle accumulated international imbalances in trade and cross-border investment. The book then also explored how this might come about, what the implications were for the price of gold and for the financial markets more generally.
Now, five years later, it is my pleasure to announce the arrival of the new, Revisited edition, containing an entirely new section on the monetary sources of inequality; multiple new chapters on ‘FinTech’, including cryptocurrencies and digital gold; and updating the text throughout for recent developments in international economic and monetary affairs.
This new, Revisited edition will be published by Goldmoney and will also appear as a special series of Goldmoney Insights over the coming months. In this first instalment I introduce the new book while also including the original introduction from the 2012 edition.
INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISITED EDITION
“If we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it existed prior to 1914, we’d be fine. Remember that the period 1870 to 1913 was one of the most aggressive periods economically that we’ve had in the United States, and that was a golden period of the gold standard. I’m known as a gold bug and everyone laughs at me, but why do central banks own gold now?”
— Alan Greenspan, June 2016[1]
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