Nixonomics at the New York Times

``It should come as no surprise that the premier mouthpiece of American Establishment official opinion, The New York Times, is hostile to the traditional gold coin standard or any state-guaranteed version of the gold standard... Gold, silver, and platinum are limited by mining costs, but there is no fixed money supply. There never has been in man's history. The statement is conceptually ludicrous and historically ludicrous. No authority need fix either the supply or the price of anything. ''