RE:RE:RE:In case you missed it,Well, the United States supposedly (by the last known account, which, of course, could always be wrong) had 8,133.46 metric tonnes of gold, the largest stockpile of any country. Germany has the second largest stockpile, at 3,366.77 metric tonnes, Italy is third at 2,451.84 metric tonnes, France is fourth at 2,436.07 metric tonnes, and Russia is fifth, at 2,219.18 metric tonnes. As Jim Rickards likes to point out, if that seems like a paltry amount of gold for each country, A) you're right, they really need to get with the program and buy a whole bunch more, and B) It's not a paltry amount if gold is $10,000-$50,000/ounce. In other words, it's not a matter of there not being enough gold in the world, it's a matter of gold needing to be several orders of magnitude more expensive in order for gold to back currencies once again.