They're not illegal; the word 'dollar' is not copyrighted; it's in common use world wide as a local unit of exchange.
"It’s called counterfeit."
No, to be a counterfeit, it has to attempt to look like another that is the 'real thing.'
This is just a fear tactic to temporarily drive down the price of gold. In a way, I'm loving it, because if it drops much more, I'm going to buy up a bumch!
Go ahead, but the time to buy gold was about 3-4 years ago.
OK let me rephrase - they’re not legal tender.
I couldn’t care less if Ron Paulites want to use the damn things...but try buying a car with one, or depositing them into your bank account, or buying anything aside from something being sold by a Ron Paulite and you’ll see the problem.
I think gold is down the last few days because oil dropped.