The Truth About The Gold In Ft. Knox

A concocted public relations scheme – an event which resembled the annual Punxsutawney ground-hog viewing tradition –  in which the Treasury Secretary emerges from Ft Knox and proclaims, “the gold is safe” does not provide any evidence whatsoever.

On cue, Jim Rickards followed up with a half-baked apology for the unwillingness of the U.S. Government to force a bona fide audit of the public’s gold being “safekept” in the Fed’s custody.

Bill “Midas” Murphy asked my opinion on Rickard’s white washing of the topic:

This is why I don’t read Rickards. I don’t know what his deal is anymore. He was a front for the Pentagon’s goal to circulate the idea of the SDR replacing the dollar as the reserve currency. This is because they know the dollar is toast but the dollar is still the largest percentage share of the SDR so the U.S. would remain in control over the world’s reserve currency if it were to be the SDR.

Now Rickards has pimped himself out to Agora, which really devalued Agora in my opinion. And he’s ripping off the public with his gold letter subscription. Total scam.  I’ve had subscribers to my Mining Stock Journal tell me his subscription service is a farce.

He really butchered the truth there with that article. While it’s true that a gold leasing transaction does not have to entail the actual transfer of physical gold from the lessor to the lessee, often it does.  Goldman recently did a lease-style transaction with Venezuela that transferred possession of VZ’s gold to Goldman.

The U.S. would have to audit to the gold if the public forced the issue. Ron Paul tried several times to force the issue on behalf of the public and the Fed spent millions in lobbying money to get Barney Frank to quash Paul’s efforts. The Fed hired Linda Robertson, formerly a lobbyist for Enron, to assist with the effort to snuff out any attempt to legislate an audit. That’s why the Government has never ordered an audit of the PUBLIC’s gold. You don’t spend millions to derail legislation just because you’re worried it will elevate the importance of gold to the public. That’s complete foolish babble but coming from Rickards  makes it sound legitimate.

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