Fort Knox has been mentioned a few times here recently, and it made me think of a news story I had seen a year or two ago. I live about 30 miles from Ft knox, so it was all over local news, and they were reporting that they were moving all of the gold to an undesclosed location and converting the place to a training facility. When I look it up now, I can't find anything to back that up besides the fact that its used for training. But I know I'm it crazy! I remmber the newscaster saying that trucks were going to be going in and out of the place, most of them empty as a security measure. I remember the guys at work bullshitting about ways to rob the armored trucks. Any insights?
Fort Knox has always been a smoke screen. If there was any substantial amount of gold there to begin with, which many people doubt, it certainly isn't backing our currency.
Ok, but what I'm confused is to why they would allow reports of the gold being moved and then pretend to have gold again. Maybe I should have put this in the conspiracy section
Yes.. a security measure. That's right. So in case someone does manage to jack one of the trucks and it is empty, that is totally just because it was a decoy. There are many signs that point to Fort Knox being empty. Whether there was ever gold there is another question, but it has almost certainly been empty for over 30 years. Another smoke screen. Now the "gold" is in an undisclosed location. Making the secret easier to keep.
I don't think you guys are understanding me. Right now the government Websites say that there is 147.3 mllion ounces on hand in Fort Knox. And that no one has seen the inside of the vault since an audit in 1984. Even though I saw muliple reports on local news that said ALL of the gold was moved when they changed the pupose of the Fort.
considering how long its been, since there was any pretension of u.s. currency backed by precious metals, why would anyone expect fort knox to be anything but a kind sealed museum? so maybe there's some gold there, maybe not. but even if there is, it amounts to such a tiny fraction of the currency in circulation, that basically why would or should anyone care? i mean, besides the point that its not the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy anyway.
