In today’s dollars, 1975 gold at $196 is more like $750 in the current market. And 1980 gold, the peak year at the historical price of $850, would now clock in closer to $2,176. And remember, this is only what you get using the most conservative market calculation of gold’s worth. There are other, even more telling ways to value gold.

Try this on for size…

$38,349 per Ounce!

Remember, for a good part of America’s history, every dollar in your pocket was a dollar backed by gold. So it’s not so crazy to ask yourself… if America has 8,180 tons - or nearly 261.7 million ounces - of gold in reserve… how many dollars does that buy?

The answer will shock you.

When dollars became unhinged from gold, the printing presses at the Fed cranked up. By 1980, for every ounce of gold in America, the financial system carried $6,966 in cash. That’s $1.8 trillion total. But get this, by the end of 2005, the total real money supply shot to over $10 trillion.

That’s $38,349 in circulation for every ounce of gold in reserve!

Of course, it’s even higher now. The printing presses are still cranking, well into 2007. Only now, it’s much harder for you to know how fat the actual money supply has gotten. See, by March 23, 2006… the number had gotten so embarrassing… the Fed actually “retired” a number called “M3,” which was the most broad-reaching measure of how much cash floats around in the system.