That old Check, bJoachimsthal/b (from where we get the term 'dollar', short for 'thallar'); probably chose gold because it was just rare enough to have value but easy enough to come by that it could be used as a currency. The weight, itself, might have been useful b....../b If these corporations love him so much a measure of that might be how much money they (i. e. Wall bst/b, corps) have given to his campaign. The monetary reforms he proposes wins him no friends on Wall Street. ...