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发信人: winetricks (winetricks), 信区: Military
标 题: 共和党要恢复金本位？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 26 09:12:05 2012, 美东)
Republicans eye a return to gold standard
CNNMoney.comBy Annalyn Censky | CNNMoney.com – Fri, Aug 24, 2012 12:59 PM
EDT
Is gold money? Some Republicans think it should be.
The Republican Party is considering setting up a commission to examine the
pros and cons of going back to the gold standard, according to draft
documents of the party platform.
The official party platform won't be decided until Monday, but a Republican
National Committee spokeswoman confirmed the draft language to CNNMoney.
The commission harkens back to the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan
set up a Gold Commission with the same intention. Only two members of the
17-member commission endorsed a return to the gold standard. One of them was
Rep. Ron Paul, who remains an avid gold supporter.
"Now, three decades later, as we face the task of cleaning up the wreckage
of the current Administration's policies, we propose a similar commission to
investigate possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar," the new
proposal says.
It's highly unlikely the United States would actually return to the gold
standard. The country first moved away from the gold standard in 1933, and
dropped it altogether in 1971. Despite support for its return by some on the
political right, few mainstream economists support its reinstatement.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has repeatedly expressed concerns
about the idea, sometimes even sparring with Paul in Congressional hearings.
Research has shown the rigid constraints of the gold standard worsened the
Great Depression, he said. Gold prices can also be volatile.
Plus, there's not enough gold in the world to support such a system, as
Bernanke noted in a lecture earlier this year.
"To have a gold standard, you have to go to South Africa or someplace and
dig up tons of gold and move it to New York and put it in the basement of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and that's a lot of effort and work,"
he said.
It's an "awful big waste of resources," he added.
But just in case the idea does gain more traction, here are some rough
calculations of what would happen to gold prices, courtesy of Julian Jessop,
chief global economist for Capital Economics.
The U.S. monetary base, which includes paper bills, coins and some deposits
at the Fed, is currently around $2.6 trillion. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury
and Federal Reserve hold about 260 million ounces in gold.
That means, if the government wanted every single dollar to be swapped with
gold, the price of gold would have to be $10,000 per ounce.
Of course, that's an "extreme assumption," Jessop notes. He points out that
under another scenario, the government could simply opt to have just 15% of
the money supply redeemable for gold at any given time. If that was the case
, the price could be set at around $1,500 an ounce -- not far from its
current market value of around $1,670.
-- CNNMoney's Charles Riley contributed to this report. | b*****e
发帖数: 53215 | 2 立马就要给米犹暗杀了
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: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: winetricks (winetricks), 信区: Military
: 标 题: 共和党要恢复金本位？
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 26 09:12:05 2012, 美东)
: Republicans eye a return to gold standard
: CNNMoney.comBy Annalyn Censky | CNNMoney.com – Fri, Aug 24, 2012 12:59 PM
: EDT
: Is gold money? Some Republicans think it should be.
: The Republican Party is considering setting up a commission to examine the
: pros and cons of going back to the gold standard, according to draft
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发帖数: 1218 | 5 这个基本是不可能的，就是为了拉选票，支持ron paul的那排
这次选举很有意思，我希望debate快点来 | b*****n
发帖数: 2324 | 6 你怎么知道米犹已经long了多少金子？
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: 立马就要给米犹暗杀了
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