The Factors that Drive Gold Higher

What if you had a self-explanatory chart that showed the major dynamics that drive gold and silver prices higher?  What would it look like?  

It would look like this:

And what if you had a wise man who could explain the role of gold in an honest and reliable monetary system.  What would he say?

He would say this:

The gold standard is a mechanism for limiting the power of government. By tethering the currency to a commodity whose supply cannot be expanded at the whim of politicians, the gold standard imposes an external discipline on government spending and prevents the inflation that reduces the purchasing power of the people’s savings. 

Piece by piece, the government has separated the dollar from any connection to gold, leaving us with a pure fiat system that allows the Federal Reserve to print money out of thin air, thereby debasing our currency, fueling economic crises, and funding endless wars without the consent of the public. 

If we want to restore economic sanity and liberty, we must restore honest money.

Former Congressman Ron Paul said exactly that in his book The Revolution: A Manifesto.

Best wishes to Dr. Paul who recently celebrated his 91^st birthday on August 20!