The gold standard has one tremendous virtue: the quantity of the money supply, under the gold standard, is independent of the policies of governments and political parties. This is its advantage. It is a form of protection against spendthrift governments.金本位制有一個很大的功能：貨幣供給的數量,在金本位制下,獨立于政府和政黨的政策。這是它的優勢。可以防止揮霍無度的政府。