hisah wrote:If you were running a fiat currency system i.e. backed by nothing would you want to hear about gold reserves? In a fiat currency system you can print as much money as you want out of thin air as you want. Can you print gold? In this case any money master wouldn't want anything to do with gold reserves or gold backed money.
Bring back the gold standard, but the immediate consequence would be a major burst of the current global debt bomb. Cool

If i'm not getting it wrong, you are for gold reserve with the only downside being the immediate adverse effect on debt.
I also think we should go for both dollar and gold reserve,a third of gold and two thirds dollar. The most ideal situation would be more of gold than dollar, but with our current trade deficit, dollar reserves are called for but not 100% of our reserves.
Gold reserves will bring in appreciation of reserves overtime.