So, what do you REALLY think is in Fort Knox LOL

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  • toadstrangler
    toadstrangler Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I realize Knox bars are 12.7 kilos ... but I wonder how they have been managed :#

    COPPER is gutter !

  • derryb
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    Quite a bit of tungsten in many of those gold bars. The "swap out" likely took place during Clinton administration.

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • jmski52
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    Who the heck knows? It seems apparent that even the Treasury Dept. doesn't really know the quantity, purity or weights either.

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    I knew it would happen.
  • toadstrangler
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    @derryb said:
    Quite a bit of tungsten in many of those gold bars. The "swap out" likely took place during Clinton administration.

    Super interesting .... I've read about tungsten in gold but what makes you think that this particular circumstance is part of that? Is it the 1 kilo size that are most known for that?

    COPPER is gutter !

  • jmb
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    Cobwebs.

  • PerryHall
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    It's being guarded by the CIA so I'm sure it's safe and all there. ;)

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • Nephasth
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  • BLUEJAYWAY
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    @jmski52 said:
    Who the heck knows? It seems apparent that even the Treasury Dept. doesn't really know the quantity, purity or weights either.

    Uncertainty. Keeps us all guessing.

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  • rte592
    rte592 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So, what do you REALLY think is in Fort Knox ?
    Smoke and a certain amount of mirrors.

    1000% needs to be Audited.

  • johnny9434
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    They wouldn't lie to us 🙄

  • BLUEJAYWAY
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    Odd Job. The villain James Bond killed in Goldfinger.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • logger7
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    I very much doubt that the gold there is gone as others tend to believe. It's a small amount compared to US spending and debt.

  • GoldFinger1969
    GoldFinger1969 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    There was an audit and Ron Paul and Phil Crane -- two "hard money" guys from the 1960's through 1980's -- were there to see it.

    Any assertions to the contrary are nonsense.