You have given a fresh perspective. And I prefer a fixed-money-supply standard, but cannot find a logic to keep gold against it.

Secondly, if any nation prints money, then, logically the intrinsic as well as market value of currency should go down immediately in proportion to the access money printed. But that never happens. The argument given by pundits doesn't sum up to a logical answer. And that encourages powerful economies printing money. If the market behaves rationally, as I understand, there is no need to have a fixed-money-supply standard.