Bernanke a boon for gold?

摘要

On March 2 last year, the man who is shortly to take over from Alan Greenspan as chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank delivered the H. Parker Willis Lecture in Economics at the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Ben Bernanke's speech was titled Money, Gold, and the Great Depression. For gold explorers, miners and investors, this address provided some interesting insights into the views of the man who will be the most powerful economic figure on the planet from January 2006. In this speech, Bernanke placed some of the blame for the breadth and depth of the economic collapse that threw millions of people out of work and destroyed millions of businesses on the Federal Reserve's insistence on maintaining the gold standard.