[John Semmens]

If we had stuck to the Constitution's requirement that only gold & silver could be money, counterfeiting would not be a big problem.

[Dog Gone]

If we had stuck to the Constitution's requirement that only gold & silver could be money, counterfeiting would not be a big problem.

That was only a limitation on the states, not the federal government.

[Yo-Yo]

All of the gold ever mined is valued at $3 Trillon as of April 2006.

There isn't enough gold and silver in the world to go back to the gold standard. That was true in the 1920's when we were taken off the gold standard.