The Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) held its 2018
National Currency Gold and Silver Work Video and Telephone Conference on March 28th where it was announced that...
Not exact matches
Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat
national currencies.
People think that if there are rival
currency groupings and
national currencies are going bust, we might as well use
gold as a safe haven.
In fact, the
national debt is larger than all of the world's physical
currency,
gold, silver, and bitcoin combined.
When the dollar (and for that matter all other
national currencies) can not be redeemed for either
gold or silver, it is inherently «weak» and ultimately worthless.
Very soon, Law's
national bank began to issue much more paper
currency than it received in
gold and silver
currency deposits, which created an inflationary economic «bubble boom.»
The difference is that since August 15, 1971, when the US unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to
gold, the dollar and most other
national currencies have been fiat
currencies.
The size of
national and global economies was growing faster than the supply of
gold, and hence it was becoming impossible to have enough
gold to back all the
currencies (inflation concerns aside).
National munis via iShares S&P
National Muni Bond Fund (MUB), reverse carry trade
currencies like CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) as well as precious metals like SPDR
Gold Trust (GLD) combine to provide a measure of protection.
Bitcoins are not issued by banks or governments — indeed the Bitcoin platform was designed to offer an alternative to
national currencies like the dollar, and commodity - based
currencies such as
gold or silver coins.
It can also be exchanged for traditional
currencies and can act as alternatives to
national fiat money and commodities like
gold.