Sunday, 2 November 2014

What are the advantages and drawbacks of using gold standard?

What are the advantages and drawbacks of using gold standard?
Unfortunately there are disadvantages to the gold standard. One of the main disadvantages of implementation is that a gold standard would artificially inflate gold's value, increasing the cost of items and industrial process in which it is used. Another disadvantage is under the gold standard, gold mined at a different rate than the economy grows can produce both inflation, when deposits are discovered and extracted and deflation when they are mined to exhaustion

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