Try as I might, without really strong feelings either way, I cannot get my head around the assertion that gold and silver are real money while paper is not real money.
I can sort of comprehend that paper not linked by some algorithmic function to gold or silver value is a dubious concept, but frankly, having paper linked through economic market processes to relative values of other countries' paper and linked to buying power of goods, commodities and services - well, that seems OK to me.
