Alan Greenspan, central banker extraordinaire, believes gold is money — and not only that, but that “no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it”:

According to Zero Hedge, these gold-supportive comments were removed from the official transcript of his recent interview with the Council of Foreign Relations.
Part of me is thrilled to have the truth spoken so directly by such a titanic figure of the establishment.
The other part of me is royally pissed. Where was this commentary when he was running the Fed, this man whose policies (and those of his successors) have been more damaging to fair and true price discovery for the precious metals than anything else in all of history?