Insight - We’re getting ‘70s flashbacks in markets too


Could a gold standard return? How? John Butler, author of The Gold Revolution, Revisited has long suggested that a return to gold is both possible and ultimately necessary, as a capstone to the financial system.

DISCOMFORTING memories of the 1970s are everywhere.

The US administration understandably bridles at comparisons of Kabul to the fall of Saigon in 1975, but the parallels are obvious and painful for Americans (and anyone who dislikes the philosophy for which the Taliban stands).

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