Not totally disagreeing with the rest of your comment, but we haven't had a gold standard for awhile now, and that’s the problem. Lifting fiat off gold lets in

Not totally disagreeing with the rest of your comment, but we haven't had a gold standard for awhile now, and that’s the problem. Lifting fiat off gold lets institutions play games with fiat to increase their fiat with the appearance of being a good steward of fiat. This is what people don’t trust.