I need a new rating: hyper late. An alarm clock emoji that hops out of your screen and smacks you then tells you to pick up a history book. You're so alarm clock on this that the internet didn't exist when the info came out. We've been off the gold standard for as long as that gold has been valued at $42, the gold in fort knox is not only a drop in the bucket compared to any number of things on our federal budget, it's wholly irrelevant to the "value" of our fiat currency, let alone "fiscal backing". Are you just now learning that the USD, and all modern currencies, are basically worth what they say they're worth on the basis of "trust me bro"? Because pretty much anyone who went through a libertarian phase, hell even some democrats, know that our money is like, imaginary, man!
Yeah, that's nothing new though. Not even worth bringing up at this point that illegal stuff is being and has been done in support of current year issues.