I actually do enjoy Ayn Rand. I thoroughly enjoyed The Fountainhead in particular.
Anyway - I have heard a lot about the going back to the gold standard nonsense. To me, that makes less than no sense - gold is not nearly as important a commodity now as it was even 50 years ago.
With that said, I wouldn't have total opposition to going to an "oil standard" for this current government.
We do take a **** ton of oil from the middle east and whatnot, but we still have Alaska mainly untapped. That's the one thing America REALLY has that it's not tapping into. If oil was more heavily controlled, America would have a much stronger economy. I firmly believe this.
So, my mantra is "Out with the gold, in with the crude."
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