Hmmm, why do I have a feeling that we don't have warehouses of gold left to meet the demand after all the pilfering by the political crime syndicates.
Wouldn't surprise me that a fair sized pawn shop had more gold than our treasury. The gold we do have in storage is more likely to be bullion stored for smaller nation's governments.
Perhaps the people who wish to eliminate us peons now have a higher percentage of the worlds gold than than they do dollars and this is really just a way for us to enrich them even more than they currently are. Think of it in these terms. Many of us have prepared ourselves for the decline of the dollar’s value as things are now. Not as many of us have prepared for a switch to gold being the basis of our currency. Switching to a gold-based currency further enriches those who own gold and makes those who don’t even poorer and less able to resist the state.