Going for gold: Ted Cruz and the politics of money

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has proposed that we consider getting the dollar back on the gold standard, which puts him outside the "mainstream" of contemporary economics. (What's a mainstream again? I can't quite say. Are there mainstreams without tributaries, in watersheds for example? Weird metaphor.) Isn't the gold standard nuts?

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has proposed that we consider getting the dollar back on the gold standard, which puts him outside the "mainstream" of contemporary economics. (What's a mainstream again? I can't quite say. Are there mainstreams without tributaries, in watersheds for example? Weird metaphor.) Isn't the gold standard nuts?…