{"id":17311,"date":"2021-12-17T20:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2021-12-17T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T04:57:33","slug":"2021-12-18-gold-is-the-barbaric-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17311","title":{"rendered":"2021-12-18 Gold Is The Barbaric Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold is the barbaric standard by which all other currencies are related.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt; Dima Bloom<br \/>\nYou failed to understand.  An ounce of gold is the standard by which all other currencies are related.  That&#8217;s the reason you said, &#8220;if it takes 1700 to buy an ounce of gold, then that is what it is worth atm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s &#8220;worth at the moment.&#8221;  As inflation eats away at the dollar, it could take 2000 dollars to buy an ounce of gold.<\/p>\n<p>But you fail to get it through your thick skull: an ounce of gold will *always* be an ounce of gold, no matter where or when &#8211; it is always the barbaric standard. &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>You go to Europe and a European will tell you that it takes 1500 Euros to buy an ounce of gold.  He doesn&#8217;t even care about dollars US.  The Euro is related to gold, not to dollars!  Gold is what they care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold is the barbaric standard by which all other currencies are related. &lt;&lt; Dima Bloom You failed to understand. An ounce of gold is the standard by which all other currencies are related. That&#8217;s the reason you said, &#8220;if it takes 1700 to buy an ounce of gold, then that is what it is worth<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17311\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,720,545],"tags":[1632],"class_list":["post-17311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-business","category-finance","tag-gold-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17312,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions\/17312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}