Yeah, but how much is the sum total OF that value. No doubt you know that the U.S. has the largest holding of gold in the world, and that our stash is worth about $300 billion. As I'm sure you know, silver is worth about 1/70th the price of gold. We have a $21 trillion GDP, serviced by about a $19 trillion money supply. our gold supply could "back" about 1/60th of that money supply and GDP. Where do you propose GETTING enough gold to back our dollars in circulation? There's only about $5 trillion dollars worth of gold in the world today. Do we buy e everybody else's gold, or just take it? Then we would only be short by a factor of 4 or 5...food for thought;)