[Music] Gold is on a tan 25, up nearly 30% so far this year, torching stocks and bonds as investors scramble for a safe haven watching the dollar head lower. I'm Jared Blickery, host of Stocks in Translation. We're going to start here with a century of gold in a second here, but I wanted to find the gold standard, and this is something that went away 90 years ago.The n the gold standard is a monetary system where dollars can be swapped for a fixed amount of gold. And here's that chart. Way back in the day, ...

In 1971, when I was a young clerk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the United States ran out of money and defaulted on its debts. That's right, the US ran out of money. How.Well, back then, gold was the money used in transactions between countries. Paper money, like the dollar, was like checks in a checkbook in that it had no value other than it could be exchanged for gold, which was the real money. At the time, the United States was spending a lot more money than it was earning by writing a lot ...