Gold

Here is your thread to:
talk about ancient aliens mining Earth for gold and enslaving humans to do so;
talk about Brad Meltzer and the conspiracy theory that Fort Knox is empty (at least of gold);
talk about the intrinsic values of gold (IIRC, it's a great conductor?);
talk about why other things of worth should or should not be tied to gold.
Have fun!

All they needed to do was follow the rainbow...obviously not smarter than the average bear.
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Remember...Always look on the bright side of life.

Anyone know what the UK gold reserves are?

Telegraph 310 tons (2011)

Telegraph

Hedge 310 tons (2012)

Hedge

Mail 4600 tons, until you read the last line .....

Mail

You also have to remember that there are activists and 5th columnists out there tying to cause sedition for their own misguided political aims. All governments are corrupt, all the gold is gone, lets all uprise and overthrow the government, power to the peoples revolution! Seti has its fair share of them, because they can peddle their kind of civil unrest here easier than other places.

Here's and interesting article and if true, well I'll let you draw your own conclusions!!

Why Gordon Brown Sold off Britain's Gold on the Cheap
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Interesting reading ....

"The crash which began in 2007 and endures still was the result of an abdication of responsibility across the financial sector".

Yep, very interesting reading!
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There is no gold in Fort Knox.

What was there is now under the twin towers in New York.

The United States Bullion Depository holds 4,578 metric tons (5,046.3 short tons) of gold bullion (147.2 million oz. troy). This is roughly 2.5% of all the gold ever refined throughout human history. Even so, the depository is second in the United States to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's underground vault in Manhattan, which holds 7,000 metric tons (7,716 tons) of gold bullion (225.1 million oz. troy), some of it in trust for foreign nations, central banks and official international organizations.

There is no gold in Fort Knox.

What was there is now under the twin towers in New York.

What ID didn't answer a question I am shocked!
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The scare of after WWII made huge impact on most nations so as a distant continent emerging giant the america had a chance to hold most gold reserve of most countries. I still wonder whether Fort Knox is still the largest gold reserve in the world. Because the warehouse protected by 1200 ICBMs nukes is kind of secure proving ground for most banks. Plus B-2 bombers and F-22 fighters...

If you were to see the "Ft Knox Gold repository" you'd know that they aren't housing gold there anymore. It's out in the open and is quite literaly there for the taking. Armored division and training facility be damned that's not a very secure site.

IIRC most of the Gold is secured in NYC