Good thought experiment, but as always, the USSA squanders their gold and silver. All the millions of ounces used during the Manhattan Project to refine the Uranium during WWII was sold of in the 70s. I sure we are BROKE, printing 50 Billion a week, according to debtclock.org, that's 1 TRILLION every 20 weeks. As a taxpayer, my bill is currently $978,000 to payoff the $112 Trillion of Unfunded Liability. BROKE< BROKE< FIAT to ZERO