{"id":59883,"date":"2021-10-14T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59883"},"modified":"2021-10-14T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T12:53:38","slug":"heres-why-modern-unbacked-money-derives-value-from-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59883","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why Modern Unbacked Money Derives Value from Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here\u2019s Why Modern Unbacked Money Derives Value from Gold<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo by\u00a0Giorgio Trovato<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The value behind money, why gold\u2019s price has grudgingly responded to recent market turmoil and what higher energy prices mean for gold and silver.<\/p>\n

Money has value, but not because the government says so<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an analysis on\u00a0Eurasia Review<\/a>, Frank Shostak goes in-depth in an attempt to answer the question: why does money have value? Opposing the views that the value of money is there because of government reassurances or social conventions, Shostak instead takes a look at history in order to avoid circular pitfalls.<\/p>\n

Doing so tells us that money is a byproduct of a bid for convenience, a result of people wanting greater prosperity and better market exchange. In their quest to obtain both, they would put\u00a0every commodity<\/em>\u00a0through a form of trial, and the one that ended up being the most commonly and widely accepted became money.<\/p>\n

We now know that that commodity is gold. Even silver or bronze coins served primarily as a form of IOU for gold, although this IOU was far more grounded and sensible than any fiat today. Shostak likewise asserts that central banks were established to prevent market manipulation and monopolization by private banks, which wouldn\u2019t hesitate to print out more gold IOUs than they could cover. (As we\u2019ve seen all too often.)<\/p>\n

Yet now, long after these early makings of modern finance, we find that little has changed. Private banks are making monopolies all the same, and despite a gold standard being nowhere in sight, much of their profits come from trading\u00a0gold IOUs<\/a>\u00a0that can\u2019t and won\u2019t be covered by\u00a0physical gold<\/a>. That is why the Basel agreement was passed, and why most agree it will only be partially implemented so as to not collapse the global economy.<\/p>\n

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