Here are some interesting #s.
2004 us custodial gold and silver holdings #s placed into the
Precious Metal Calculator from Dendritics
http://dendritics.com/scales/metal-calc.asp
Gold holdings of 245,262,897 oz. = $164,019,317,106 USD
Silver holdings of 7,075,171 = $101,425,762 USD
TOTAL worth todays market value = $164,120,742,868 USD
Wikipedia gives #s of us dollars in circulation at $760,000,000,000 USD
It would take 4.63 dollar in gold &/or silver to = 1 printed dollar.
Making the dollar in truth worth less than a quarter of the printed value.
Then there is the
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 May 2006 at 10:48:51 PM GMT is:
$ 8 , 3 5 0 , 1 9 0 , 7 5 4 , 4 1 9 . 6 9
I have no desire to add this figure to my already concerning numbers
