[Disambiguator]

What sense does it make to use gold as a currency when it has been the object of inflation more than our currencies?

Gold isn't going up, the dollar is going down.

[chipper dave]

Speculators are driving up the cost of gold as well as the dollar being dilluted. How many other goods can you think of that are going up in cost as fast as gold has in the last couple of years? Gold would hardly be a stable currency.