Wednesday update: Ritholtz's GDP chart, Benko on social disorders stemming from the unstable dollar, Luskin doubts gold as an inflation measure.

Courtesy of Barry Ritholtz, this chart illustrates how far off-trend GDP is:



From TGSN, Ralph Benko unpacks the dollar standard’s three social disorders (here, here and here).

Also on TGSN, Christopher K. Potter argues there’s plenty of gold for a gold standard.

At The Kudlow Report, Don Luskin denies that $1,400 gold means inflation:



From The Atlas Sound Money Project, Alex Chafuen excerpts Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s column on Dallas Fed Chairman Richard Fisher’s speech critiquing QE2.

At plata.com, Hugo Salinas Price blames the economy’s woes on the abandonment of the gold standard (h/t: Ralph Benko).