Ever wonder what the Constitution had to say about money? This article is from the Wall Street Journal, re-printed on the GATA website. I found the last paragraph particularly interesting - the historical circumstances at the time of the writing of the Constitution were unusually challenging.

[1] http://www.gata.org/node/8688

A lot has been said about how paper money was created as a whim of government. Well, a whim of many governments over the eons. And it always ends up the same way: worthless. This guy brings up a good point: after the reserve currency of the world goes away, what’s left?