Gold Has Been Money

Everybody has their own view. Mine is that gold is not money until you can go into a shop and get someone to accept it as money. Gold, certainly in recent decades, is nothing more than a commodity. Yes at times it has been money in the past, but so has silver, so have seashells, so have cattle. A lot of things have been used as money. Silver has been money more than gold historically, and throughout the world there is a lot more silver around.

- Jim Rogers via Gold Money:

http://www.goldmoney.com/en-gb/news-and-analysis/news-and-analysis-archive/jim-rogers-nobody-gets-out-of-this-situation-until-theres-a-crisis.aspx