Trump Fed pick wants to revive the gold standard. Here’s what that means
” As President Donald Trump named his picks to fill two influential seats on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, the price of gold surged. That may be because one of the them, Judy Shelton, is a believer in the return to the gold standard, a money policy abandoned by the U.S. in 1971. “
Trump Taps a Longtime Dove and a Onetime Gold Bug for Fed
By Josh Wingrove and Rich Miller
July 2, 2019
This Trump Economic Advisor Wants America to Go Back to the Gold Standard
By Chris Matthews
August 18, 2016
https://fortune.com/2016/08/18/trump-gold-standard-economic-advisor-woman-judy-shelton/
“Would the first step in that be issuing gold-convertible bonds?
Don’t attribute this idea to the Trump campaign, but it has been something that I have been proposing for years now. A gold-backed bond was first proposed in 1981 by Alan Greenspan. I think the U.S. should issue them as an experimental pilot program, similar to the TIPS bond, that compensates people who are concerned about the future value of the dollar. For those who are concerned about a big financial meltdown, these bonds would give them some insurance, as gold tends to rise in price during periods of financial stress.
The Chinese would welcome this development, because it would likely be a stabilizing force for the value of the dollar and protect their dollar holdings. I also think they are the most likely country to provide a parallel instrument. If China were to offer a similar instrument where five years from now you can get back x amount in yuan or an ounce of gold, five years from now both the U.S.-issued instrument and the China-issued instrument are worth the same thing, an ounce of gold. So now you start getting projections of a stable exchange rate determined by market forces.”
“Donald Trump: “We used to have a very, very solid country because it was based on a gold standard,” he told WMUR television in New Hampshire in March last year. But he said it would be tough to bring it back because “we don’t have the gold. Other places have the gold.”
Trump’s comment to GQ: “Bringing back the gold standard would be very hard to do, but boy, would it be wonderful. We’d have a standard on which to base our money.””
https://internationalman.com/articles/trumps-gold-standard/ In September 2011, Trump accepted gold bars as a security deposit from a commercial tenant. That tenant was APMEX, one of the largest precious metals dealers in the U.S.