# Professor Richard Sylla explains why the US should not tie its currency to gold

1 Faculty News November 11, 2015 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/2015/11/11/economy/why-gold-standard-hardly-gold-standard) -- "'Gold isn't produced fast enough to keep up with the growth of the economy,' said [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), professor of economics at New York University."

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