The sooner we do, the sooner the recovery can begin.
Going to the gold standard was one of the biggest factors that led to the Great Depression. It would tighten the money supply too quickly and too much.
During the Spanish Civil War the left wing, so called, republicans allowed the Russians to load up all the gold in the Spanish Treasury into a ship and transport it to the USSR. The Spanish economy never even had a prayer of recovery until the end of the Gold Standard. I hope Spain’s new al-Quaida overlords are prepared for Change.