CNN reports:
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is calling for the United States to think about returning to the gold standard.
Speaking at a foreign policy forum in South Carolina on Tuesday, Gingrich advocated a “commission on gold to look at the whole concept of how do we get back to hard money.”
Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House, has spoken in favor of a “hard money” policy in the past, but these were his strongest comments to support reinstating the gold standard.