Uncertain status of monetary gold

Incidence 
In recent years controversy arose about the price and status of gold. Proposals ranged from dissociating its monetary value from currency values, through preservation of the [status quo], to an increase in the gold price. The uncertain future status of gold, fed by the debate on different proposals, reduces general confidence in the international monetary system and incites speculation which causes serious damage to it.
Claim 
Since the USA abrogated the convertibility of the central bank's dollar claims into gold, the official gold exchange rate is a fiction.
Counter-claim 
Although gold no longer holds the dominant position in international payments that it once had, its traditional role as the generally accepted unit of account and ultimate means of international settlement has, to a very considerable extent, been preserved.
Broader 
Money
Uncertainty
Aggravates 
National public debt [in 10 loops]
Capitalist speculation [in 3 loops]
Lack of confidence in the international monetary system [in 5 loops]
Aggravated by 
Hoarded monetary gold
Inadequate world liquidity
Inadequacies of the international monetary system
Strategy(ies) 
Using gold
Value(s) 
Status
Uncertainty
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems