Technically it's an old '60s, '70s Special Forces trick. Most old members of the SF did their damnedest to look like truckers or longshoremen, not walking G.I. Joe Action Figures going for a bronze star.
Only way it could possibly be any more amazing is if we nationalized all the storehouses of gold that we're holding onto for all the other nations due to the old petrodollar deal.
Although I have the feeling that one would kick start WW3.