Calls for Everyone’s Favorite Standard Are Back; Make America Gold Again

Gold Silver Reports — The gold standard is one of the oldest ideas about money, but the hardest of hard-money hawks sense an opening to breathe new life into it. Decades ago, the amount of cash circulating in a country was often limited by the stash of bullion held in its coffers.

Especially since 2008, developed-world policy has headed in the exact opposite direction, expanding the powers of central banks to stoke growth. Helicopter drops of money, potentially the next new thing, would be a giant leap further.

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Delhi Leader Kejriwal Took Action to Reduce Air Pollution

Delhi Leader Kejriwal Took Action to Reduce Air PollutionGold Silver Reports ~ In a city where motorists routinely run red lights and drive on the wrong side of the road, many doubted the feasibility of Delhi leader Arvind Kejriwal’s plan to roughly halve the number of cars in India’s capital in a bid to reduce air pollution.

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Free Web access in India

Free Web access in India

Gold Silver Reports ~ A majority of Indians who submitted comments to the nation’s telecommunications regulator said they support Facebook Inc.’s Free Basics plan that would allow free Web access.

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Petronet Revise LNG Contract to Lower Indian Prices

Gold Silver Reports – Qatar’s RasGas Co. agreed to cut the price of gas it supplies to Petronet LNG Ltd. by almost half from Friday under an existing 25-year contract with India’s biggest gas importer.

Under the revised terms, Petronet will pay RasGas $6 to $7 per million British thermal units, compared with about $13 earlier, India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday. A penalty for taking less-than-contracted volumes this year amounting to about 120 billion rupees ($1.8 billion) on Petronet has been waived by the Qatari company, he said.

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Fire Breaks Out in Luxury Dubai Hotel

Fire Breaks Out in Luxury Dubai Hotel
Fire Breaks Out in Luxury Dubai Hotel

Gold Silver Reports – A fire engulfed a luxury hotel in downtown Dubai close to the Burj Khalifa tower where thousands of people gathered for a New Year’s Eve fireworks display.

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