There is no gold. The central banks that make up the federal reserve all ready took most of our national reserves of both gold and silver. Our current monetary system is the fractional reserve system. Long story sort our money is based on nothing, but blind faith. Don't take my word for it look up Modern Money Mechanics ,a paper that was issued by the Chicago Federal Reserve, which is an explanation of how your local bank is actually allowed to create digital money with almost every new loan they issue. www.rayservers.com/images/ModernMoneyMechanics.pdf The only way we can get out of our national economic woes for the long term is to dismantle the federal reserve and get out of all of the "free" trade orgs and reestablish tariffs.