Posted on 03/29/2009 11:07:39 AM PDT by bvw
Sorry, not taking Wikipedia as a source. Nor are spurious "conspiracy theory" comments welcomed. It's an honest question.
Answers should cite primary sources and such primary sources should cite date and type of audit. I also expand this question to include all US stores, where the gold is owned by the US.
Answers must distinguish between "holding" and "ownership", the question is to ownership!
I note that a great failing of our times is that people do not know how to keep books anymore, and even less how to audit. Too many make assumptions, or give a cheap pass to references that are poor, weak, secondary, misread, and often false in detail, as sources.
i would like to see an actual audit myself...i dont trust the history channel on most of the crap they show on there....
Are you all aware that we can now make gold out of lead, as the alchemits struggled for centuries to do? Takes a nuclear reaction, tho, and thus far has not been cost-effective.
In short order, I think there will be countries who revert to the gold standard to escape the horror and anxiety of a floating currency. there will be a return to the tried and true historical basis for wealth.
Will America join the club? Don’t know. It will take years to make the decision.
Well, that’s interesting. Still, the powder would be undergoing chemical reaction even at a low rate. How many didn’t go off, or were squid rounds? Anyway that’s off-topic!
The “value” of gold is and always has been a constant!
How’s that statement teach ?
Personally, I don’t think so. Mostly because it’s such a specious way for wealth creation - instead of creating products with ideas, or farming the land, you can go dig it out of the ground and your wealth grows. Sure we do it now, but the gold is counting in terms of dollars.
How much gold is in Fort Knox and who owns it?
Not much.
Not you.
oops!
To: 2harddrive
The “value” of gold is and always has been a constant!
How’s that statement teach ?
Go without grub for five days or so, and you’d eat a bug.
And LIKE it!!
Proper cleaning negates the primer issue. I have 45 acp and 9mm from just about every era including modern manufacture. I don’t own modern round hand weapons like 10mm or 40cal, sources too limited. I reload, 357 mag and 44 mag and all my 12 gauge shotgun and my centerfire rifle rounds, for 30-06 and 270. I have more 22 LR rimfire than I have space. All told I do not own a gun without at least 1000 rounds. Most are more like 2000 and the 22 LR is like 5000+.
How much gold is in Fort Knox and who owns it? Enough and TOTUS plans to own it all as soon as the coup is complete and he is ruler of the world.
God rest your bones, Dr. McCoy aka Deforest Kelley!
LOL....too deep for me! I think he means it is not subject to value loss like paper currencies are.
Copper is second best in conductivity. Gold, with its' even lower conductivity, has a less transparent sound with poorer resolution of low level details compared to silver products.
“Irving Belin was a pretty good conductor.”
Man you must have taken a double dose of your funny pills this morning!
Mel
I have heard that all of the gold in California is in the middle of a bank in Beverly Hills.
Gold ping
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