Looks like a history lesson might be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock We stopped operating on gold

Looks like a history lesson might be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock We stopped operating on gold in 1971 and I doubt we could go back.