Gold, and silver will never go back to be the reserve currency, at least that is my hope. Here I go, relying on the decency of humans, but if the system is equally applied, fair, and lends itself to solving problems rather than patching them, it would work, and there would be prosperity. Utopic? The issue is that the system is being altered, the inner working of the system, they are being altered by lobbyists for the benefit of 1% of the population.
I envision that eventually both sides of the political spectrum will put aside certain fights, such as social moral issues, and come together for a common cause, the common cause being the removal of these speculators, and bankers that have made there way into every part of our lives, and that are in control of the very market that decides whether this month you have a job to keep the electricity on this month or not. No, I am not refering to the so-called tea party. I am talking about a real grassroots movement that has equal portions of both sides standing up, together, united against this enemy.
No 'thing' has intrinsic value. Now, the question is, into what 'thing's' are we to place value. In a society where all individuals have the opportunity to get a good education, a good paying job to raise a family, or a society that is held hostage by bankers, and wall street speculators who are merely interested in packing their bank accounts with manufactured money, then hedging against properity when it financially suits them, wait, then they expect the tax payer to bail them out. These huge businesses need to be broken up so that they can not hold us hostage like they have been the past few years.