'Return to the Gold standard' is repeated almost every economic crisis starts, but is returning to the gold standard really going to fix There's a lot of talk by right-wingers about returning to the Gold Standard. What was the gold standard, how did it work, and why is returning to it either impossible or a bad idea?

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