See how many tons of "pork bellies" you'll have to possess - and transport - in order to buy one main battle tank or a single fighter plane. Assuming, that is, that the country selling the military hardware wants/needs your pork bellies.

The UK and Holland relocated their gold to the Sun Life Building in Montreal, in the early stages of WWII. France got their gold out of the country to the US, just ahead of the German blitzkrieg. Why did these countries move ALL of that gold? Why did the Germans WANT that gold? (They wanted it very badly - they had none.) In the course of the war, armoured trains moved loads of the British gold from Montreal to the US, in order to pay for war material. Why did the US want to be paid in gold?

The idea that gold isn't money was constructed when Nixon reneged on Breton-Woods, and took the US off the gold standard in 1971. That even was a US dollar default.

There's $13 TRILLION dollars right now in negative interest global gov't debt. 

"Buckle-up"...