Is our gold REALLY stored at Fort Knox?
Last night I watched CSI NY on CBS and the story line was that gold plated bars of tungsten was being passed off as real bars of gold bullion.
Until she died in 1980 my mother always insisted the gold supposedly stored in Fort Knox was carried away to meet other agendas.
I recall seeing on History Channel a couple of times an episode where people were allowed into the vaults of Fort Know to inspect the gold to quelch rumors my mother had heard.
I watched the History Channel show showing the stacks of gold bars and people picking them up and looking at them but I had my doubts.
Last night on CSI NY they said gold has the same density as tungsten. Well that fits my suspicion of gold plated cement when I watched the History Channel show.
So how do we know for certain sure that there is really gold in Fort Knox and not just gold painted or plated cement or tungsten?
Mebbe we oughta have another audit of Fort Knox and this time take along some hack saws and cut open them so-called 'gold bars'.
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They stored gold there before. not annymore, i think its mroe like a museum now. no gold stored there.
Yeah, the government spends an enormous amount of money to perpetuate a fraud to maintain the illusion that the gold is stored there…
</sarcasm>
Apparently there is gold bullion kept at Fort Knox. Its 4603 tons of gold held there. There’s actually more held at the federal reserve which keeps about 5000 tons. So yeah there’s gold there but it doesn’t do anything. The dollar hasn’t been backed by gold for about 70 years now. Which is why our dollar sucks in value.
And then conspiracy theoriests could just say that the bars cut were staged.
The fact is it doesn’t really matter if there is gold there or not, it has very little impact on anything.
*In Jeremy Iron’s German Accent*
"Fort Knox? Ha! It’s for tourists."