I think our central bank, the UK central bank and French central bank and some others.... have five different parties thinking the central bank gold bars belong to them
Think of time shares in gold bars. Schedule your inspection assay and count, check the serial numbers. Everything is hokie-dokie, yes?
But...does any one bother to check the serial numbers of other countries bars? Does Germany say, "Gives us the s/n lists of ALL the gold bars in depository.". Auric Goldfinger thought small.
Whose gold is it?
I suspect gold plated tungsten bars would just about fill the various vaults deemed lacking to the appropriate amounts. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
It sounds as if a bunch of impecunious, drunken alchemists have taken control of banking and finance the world over. It took a lot of international “cooperation” on some level to pull this off.
They’re trying to kill the “barbarous relic,” imho. Driving it into the basement in the late 90’s to early 2000’s didn’t do it so they’ve resorted to debasing it by spinning paper and base metals into gold.