the gold and silver vigilantes the last bastion of real money well that goes back to this guy william hagman he is providing the quality control that the bank is failing to do and the bond vigilantes are failing to do so is just the gold and silver at this time now max regarding how much counterfeit currency is in circulation in america so how many hot potatoes are out there it's become dangerously widespread slightly less than two percent of the u.s. money supply is counterfeit according to the secret service it's the number is much higher than this this is one of those numbers that will creep up on people over the next three months they'll say oh it's just out of jail percent then revise that like they're revised g.d.p. revised the productivities number the employment numbers they'll be but revising the percentage of counterfeit to quote unquote real money number it will be five percent six percent ten percent twenty percent gold will keep going higher and higher and as long as you can exchange counterfeit money think about the deal states or you can buy silver and gold using paper counter