Governments that used this system held gold reserves to back their currency, and citizens could exchange paper money for gold at a fixed rate. The gold standard began to phase out in 1933 when the ...

On April 2, 1792, long before fiat currency, digital dollars, or cryptocurrency, America’s Founders sought to anchor the ...

Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald ...

Charles Rist was an economist of nearly a century ago who recognized the dangers behind President Franklin Roosevelt‘s ...

Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran journalist and Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) co-founder Chris Powell to discuss ...

This would replace the current discretionary approach with a rules-based system that recognizes gold's monetary significance. By focusing on dollar stability rather than manipulating interest ...

Since the 1879 gold standard was established in America ... In such a system, the measure of actual gold held by the banking system ( the true monetary base) versus the gold certificates (paper ...

Trump and Musk question the safety of Fort Knox's gold, echoing past conspiracy theories amid rising dollar fears.

In effect, the US was on a gold standard, and the rest of the world ... gold – Switzerland aside – played no part in the global monetary system. Of course it was the fault of the speculators.

Countries like the U.K. and the U.S. embraced the gold standard, a monetary system tying the value of a standard unit of currency's value to a certain amount of gold. When the Great Depression and ...

While gold may not be a wealth creation asset in the traditional sense, it remains an essential tool for diversification and ...