What Is Currency Debasement? Currency debasement refers to the lowering of the value of a currency. It is primarily associated with coins made from precious metals, such as gold and silver.

Viewing gold as a currency and trading it as such can mitigate risks to paper currency and the economy. As with all currency pairs, investors should be aware that gold is forward-looking.

A new law would let both public agencies and private businesses choose to accept precious metals in exchange for goods, ...

Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold ...

Fiat currency, like the U.S. dollar, is a form of money created by a government and accepted as legal tender within that government's jurisdiction.

There are examples of gold as currency on view, like bullion from a 1620s Spanish galleon ship—a vivid reminder of Europe’s conquest of the Americas and the role gold played in early colonial ...

What Is Currency Debasement? Currency debasement refers to the lowering of the value of a currency. It is primarily associated with coins made from precious metals, such as gold and silver.

Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency loses half its value: Why and what’s next? Six months in, the gold-backed ZiG touted as a solution to the currency crisis is struggling to win confidence.

Have you ever wondered why 1-ounce gold coins are a popular investment? Here are six reasons to buy them.

Gold and silver, then, by the very instincts and passions of the human soul, are the natural mediums of exchange; their use, as such, preceded all convention or agreement, just as the love of ...

During the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, for example, investors flocked to safe-haven assets, causing gold to double in value between 2007 and 2012 while many other asset classes faltered.

Gold is not a currency (a historical anecdote) Gold hit an all-time high yesterday. Regular readers of Unhedged will know that we have mixed feelings about the metal.