{"id":14622,"date":"2010-10-30T12:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2010-10-30T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:33:26","slug":"the-reasons-why-gold-is-the-most-reliable-currency-in-the-wold-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/10\/30\/the-reasons-why-gold-is-the-most-reliable-currency-in-the-wold-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reasons Why Gold Is The Most Reliable Currency In The Wold Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daniel Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most important ways to save humanity in extreme situations  is a stable economy, which helps to eliminate hunger, protect people  and cope with disasters. But money is not very resistant to all kinds of  changes. It is related to the market system that allows them to drop or  increase in price.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we notice that prices for different products rise from time to  time. The reason is not because they become more expensive, it is  because the money itself worth less. An economy where money supply is  not tired to gold, faces inflation. If the currency of the country is  pegged to the gold stocks so the crisis is virtually invisible and the  national currency is stable to fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the prices on gold during the last years you can see that  they are changing all the time. Though it is not the price of gold that  is changing, it is the price of money against gold moves up and down.  Virtually the gold price remains stable for many centuries though the  quantity of money you need to buy gold changes from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Historically it started a long time ago when gold was used as money. The  money was made of gold and other precious metals like silver. But it  was a time of completely different money and economy. With the  development of civilization, the world&#8217;s economy and money has changed  too, though the gold value still stayed the same.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask why there are so many cases of countries bankruptcy,  inflation and economical crisis if the quantity of existing money is  equal to the gold. The reason is that the world economists wish to raise  the value of the money and the ways they used to do so cause all kinds  of economical disasters where common people suffer. Instead of  stabilizing the economic situation of the country by increasing the gold  stocks, economists choose the path of inflation releasing more money.  As a result all becomes expensive and people don&#8217;t have enough money  to buy things. Money depreciates more and more and all this leads to  poverty and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Currently there is so much money in the world, that it is impossible to  equate it to the rate of gold, because it would increase the price of  gold in a million times. For that reason such actions as inflation is  necessary to do in order to keep the stability of the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance of electronic money changed the situation. Banks have a  lot of virtual accounts that are not secured by any gold reserve. So we  can say that the present price of gold has being deliberately  significantly diminished.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is one of the most traded commodities in Forex market. Silver and  Oil are popular too but their volumes are much lower. There are also  many other commodities like Platinum, Rice, etc offered for trading by  many brokers. Trading commodities is much different than currencies.  Commodities market is more volatile and usually has higher spreads that  requires any trader be more careful in building his trading strategy.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Daniel Shaw is a Forex Trading professional. Visit his site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore FX<\/a><\/strong> to get more useful information and tips on how to trade<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Forex in Singapore<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important ways to save humanity in extreme situations is a stable economy, which helps to eliminate hunger, protect people and cope with disasters. But money is not very resistant to all kinds of changes. It is related to the market system that allows them to drop or increase in price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}