I believe that the amount of gold and silver available depends strictly on the price. At the moment many gold and silver mines are shut down because of the low price of these metals. A number of other processes that are able to recover gold from say seawater are at this time too expensive to bother with. Given a true free market in gold and other precious metals, Prices would quickly stabilize at a level that would enable the mine owners a profit on formerly unprofitable mines. Also with a true bimetal, or even trimetal standard ,using copper as was used previously, plus the ware house receipts for large transactions, The world wide economy would soon begin a rate of growth unseen in the last 100 years. This would be accompanied with falling prices such as have been seen previously in the computer market. Even with initial high demand for previously expensive goods, prices should continue to gradually fall for say a century or two. This would also ofcourse have to include the collapse of most governments to prevent both misdirected investments and inflations. If e-gold style commerce were added to the equation the results would be amazing.
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