TOPSHOT - Gold bullion bars are pictured after being inspected and polished. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images) Bringing up the subject of a gold standard is ...

The phrase “the gold standard” means, in common parlance, the best available benchmark – as in double-blind randomized trials are the gold standard for determining the efficacy of a vaccine. Its ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Jillian Melchior, Adam O'Neal and Dan Henninger. Images: Getty Images/AP Composite: Mark Kelly President Richard Nixon ended the ...

The once-fringe fantasy of a return to the gold standard is creeping back into the mainstream. Yet the idea that every US dollar should be backed by a small amount of actual gold is more popular than ...

As they met last week in Washington, delegates to the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund studiously avoided discussion of one subject: a change in the world’s gold policy.

Did you catch Warren Buffett’s retirement warning? “Obviously, we wouldn’t want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell,” Buffett said. “There could be ...

During Tuesday night’s Republican debate a familiar topic resurfaced to the dismay of most economists: the case for the gold standard. Senator Ted Cruz criticized the Fed’s ability to manipulate ...

Many Republicans have long had simmering resentments against America's entire modern monetary system. These gripes boiled to the surface at Tuesday's GOP presidential debate. Rand Paul accused the ...

No country in the world today operates on the gold standard. That might change if some Republican presidential candidates have their way. To say the least, this puts them outside the economic ...