U.S. Elites Begin To Confront the Paper Dollar

There is nowhere left to hide. America’s governing elites begin to internalize the magnitude of their failure to generate jobs.  CBO now predicts worse than 8% unemployment until 2014.  America begins to engage, seriously, with the implications of the faltering dollar and reconsider the appeal of the gold standard. From The New Yorker to The National Interest to The Washington Monthly to The Nixon Foundation, thoughts turn to gold.