When the dollar crashes and the Yuan becomes the WR Currency, IRAs will be worthless. Hello?
The US Strategic Gold Reserve has not been audited since the 1950’s.
A full audit includes assaying the bars, drilling and testing the shavings. Much written about China and Russia receiving some US bars ( during Clinton’s era) and they were found 1) not to be .999 gold and 2) Gold plated tungsten- same specific gravity).
Today, Russia, China has amassed huge amounts of gold, and World CentralBanks are BUYING Gold in huge quantities, presumably to back their paper/ digital currencies.
I do believe the US does not have what they say….the statement “ in deep storage” used in compiling inventories is commonly used to indicate gold deposits that have NOT been mined, refined and poured.
Gata.Org has covered this topic since the last gold rush in the 1980’s.