[CholeraJoe]

Well at least the dollar is backed up by all of the gold in Fort Knox.


What?

The dollar's not backed by gold?

And there's no gold in Fort Knox?

We're DOOMED!

[Travis McGee]

When WAS the last outside audit of the gold allegedly in Fort Knox?

Or is there just a pile of paper there, “lease” agreements for gold that’s long since gone, never to return?

[NeoCaveman]

And there's no gold in Fort Knox? We're DOOMED!

Today money is backed by cold hard electron bits. Just a series of Ones and Zeros.

And that's the way it is.