Peter Koenig was a career staff economist at the BIS and I recognized the 'facts' he recited as the same 'facts' I had seen in my Money and Banking Course. The Dobbins article was more of an opinion piece than a news story, but it rang true to me. And it is not hard to throw substantiation around many of the statements. I do not think Koenig is a gold bug, quite the contrary. See the following transcript from Voice of Russia:
The chief manipulator of the gold market is the BIS

The return to the gold standard could be a very simple scheme; using a fixed unit of gold vs. a debt ratio close to the one of the highest interested debtor nation. A new gold standard would help Uncle Sam revaluing the dollar and at the same time purging its enormous debt on the rest of the world, mostly on the backs of those countries which have no or limited gold reserves. Many of them are developing countries with natural resources, sought-after by the West - resources that would help pay their skyrocketing debt service.

Most OECD economies with gold reserves - and especially the co-opted Europeans - might go along with the scheme. Mainly, because their economies are at shambles since the 2008 Wall Street / IMF imposed artificial `crises'. Their short-term thinking might see the new gold standard as the salvation for the beaten euro. But what else is there to expect, when the President of the European Central Bank is a former Goldman Sachs executive?

Desirability and possibility - Of course, returning to the gold standard is not desirable, as it would hand over the world's economy and resources to the Western powers and financial mafia. A gold standard is not sustainable. It is vulnerable to the manipulations of those in control of the financial markets. In parallel with the US amassing gold, China, Russia, Germany, Japan - and others - have also bought massively gold in the past decade in preparation for such a potential move by the US.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."