On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 09:48 -0500, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > The appeal for gold is based on an illusion that gold has some kind of > mystical value of its own, as if the it was ordained by God.
Opinions and desires can't be universalized, but I believe that most of the people who want to see gold as money do so because they believe in a decentralized, universal, stable, currency, something no central bank can achieve. Craig