A few years ago I found myself at the table with a gentleman who claimed to have been the one to replace the seals on the vaults at Ft Knox. The old seals had never been broken but were getting really old and fragile. He claimed the noise about the loss of gold was all rumor. He seamed very credible and I being one who suspected the monkey business with the gold supply found myself doubting the rumors. That was probably 10 years ago. Who knows what has happened since.
I may be mistaken, but I believe the FED is supposedly holding some of the US gold reserves.
But the business of “leasing” gold to another country when then sells it for currency while it’s still on the books her as part of our gold reserves is complete balderdash.
I would be genuinely surprised to find that the US has even 25% of claimed reserves. I would be willing to bet a month’s pay that there is no more than 50% of claimed reserves physically on hand.