Your probably didn't know it but we went off the gold standard decades ago.
Apparently you didn't look at my site or you would have noticed that I credited Woodrow Wilson and the beginning of the Federal Reserve for our being derailed from the gold standard. That was 1913. Phony money and how it got us where we are is the primary economic topic on my site.
http://www.babylontoday.com/what_happened.htm
Which also includes Congressman McFaddin's speech about it in 1933.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html