Roubini’s blog today regarding my question on gold and whether he speaks farsi. He actually responded to me; I think I’m in heaven…
“Schahrzad: thanks for your continued interesting comments. I say that gold is a barbaric relic as there is a bunch of “gold bug” who believe that all the world’s problem would be solved if we were to go back to a gold standards; these hacks are usually the supply-sider voodoo economics believers who think – against all evidence – that tax cuts increase revenues. So, i am wary of supporting the role of gold. and yes in periods of inflation gold can be an hedge; but so can many other commodities; what is so special about gold? so, i’d rather us get rid of our gold obsession.
best, nouriel ps: btw i speak farsi extremely poorly
