****Platinum, gold and silver would seem to be the most stable and reasonable backing. The problem with a gold standard is, of course, that nations holding our currency would immediately seek to exchange their dollars for our gold and our gold supply would quickly disappear. Is that a problem? probably. The bigger question, how would this affect our national debt and our pending budget deficits which are the real anchors holding this economy back. It’s worth investigating but not something I would enter into casually and without serious weighing and measuring.****
Then the only way out is to crash the whole worlds economy and start over with commodities backing a US currency. The biggest problem with that is the call One Worlders for a single currency for all nations. That and there would have to be either a huge war to settle differences, or mutual agreement that all debts are forgiven.
*from One Worlders*