The financial liquidity crisis is in full swing around the
world. It is no wonder that experts and novices alike seek ways
and means to prevent a future recurrence. Many different
solutions are enacted and proposed. All of them center on wealth
and money or votes.  Questions regarding the reemerging push for
a return to a gold standard and our discussions of earlier
Austrian school of economic theories abound.  Such discussions
especially flourish during major financial crises.  Certainly,
gold has been viewed by civilizations for some five thousand
years as stable and desirable. Why? Simple – man cannot easily
destroy it, nor create it. It has been considered both wealth
and money.  It certainly meets both ancient and modern
economics’ criteria for wealth. To a lesser degree, it meets the
definitions for money.  First, it is a medium of exchange.
Almost everyone agrees to trade if gold is involved.  It serves
as a store of value. In other words, gold cannot only serve as
money, but it is actually a tangible