Watch: Glenn Beck explains inflation by talking to a bunch of cupcakes

I am pretty sure Glenn Beck doesn't know what money is, nor has he ever tried thinking about the gold standard. There is a reason we left it. When recessions strike in a gold standard, people lose faith in the currency and exchanged it for gold. However, there is only X amount of gold in the bank, so banks need to convince people to keep cash. To do that, they raise interest rates. This makes it harder to borrow, so businesses can't operate as smoothly and the economy gets worse. People then lose confidence and the cycle continues. This doesn't happen with a fiat system. Things stopped getting worse during the Great Depression for countries almost at the same moment they abandoned the gold standard. It's not terribly difficult to understand.