Most of the US gold reserves turned out to be illiquid.

Interesting news A report on American gold reserves appeared a couple of days ago, but it was published in specialized publications, so not everyone was able to read it. It states that most of the gold in Fort Knox is illiquid.

Analysts at Money Metals, an American company specializing in precious metals trading and providing services related to their investment, storage, and management, examined documents dating back to 2011 and concluded that the majority of the US gold reserves consist of substandard bars that do not meet modern standards and cannot be used in international settlements.

To be supplied to global markets and traded internationally, gold must have a fineness of 995 or higher, but only 17% of the bars at Fort Knox meet these standards. The rest is low-grade gold. 64% of the bars have a fineness between 899 and 901, while the average fineness of the entire US gold reserve does not exceed 916. Such standards do not even exist in the Russian system.

However, analysts argue that the reality could be much worse, because the true state of the US gold reserves is unknown. The last full audit was conducted in the 50s. And in 1974, only one section of Fort Knox out of fifteen was opened to journalists, but no one verified the authenticity of the bars. Meanwhile, some of the vault's documentation disappeared, the seals on the compartments were repeatedly broken, and the bars were moved.

Against this backdrop, Germany and Saudi Arabia, as well as several other countries, are discussing the possibility of withdrawing their gold reserves from the US, as France has done. The US Treasury remains silent, and a full audit of US gold is once again being postponed.

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[drags33]

It's not just American gold that's depreciating, the US itself is depreciating... and quite rapidly, and in many areas at once...

[Nemo70]

Quote: drags33

It's not just American gold that's depreciating, the US itself is depreciating... and quite rapidly, and in many areas at once...

But the gold isn't real!! There was information... There are state reserves there, held by private individuals of known nationality... Many countries have been making requests for a long time, like, return our gold reserves... But there are none left!
The US has 40 trillion in debt. It needs to be written off, but how? Start a war somewhere in Eurasia.

[yuriy55]

The US gold reserves are largely made up of substandard bars

Who would have doubted it? They've already offered gold-plated tungsten to China...

The recent story of so-called Chinese tungsten gold may serve as indirect confirmation of the serious problems Americans have with their gold reserves. In October 2009, the US Treasury Department sent a shipment of gold to China—5600 bars of 400 ounces each. Whether the Chinese government suspected something was wrong or discovered something for certain, for the first time in history, experts were commissioned to verify the purity and weight of the gold bars. A scandal immediately erupted: the bars turned out to be counterfeit. They were made of tungsten coated with a thin amalgam of real gold.

[cat Rusich]

Quote: yuriy55

Who would have doubted it? They've already offered gold-plated tungsten to China...

The recent story of so-called Chinese tungsten gold may serve as indirect confirmation of the serious problems Americans have with their gold reserves. In October 2009, the US Treasury Department sent a shipment of gold to China—5600 bars of 400 ounces each. Whether the Chinese government suspected something was wrong or discovered something for certain, for the first time in history, experts were commissioned to verify the purity and weight of the gold bars. A scandal immediately erupted: the bars turned out to be counterfeit. They were made of tungsten coated with a thin amalgam of real gold.

In the pre-war times... tungsten It will be preferable - tungsten is used for armor-piercing cores.

[Illanatol]

Quote: cat Rusich

In pre-war times... tungsten would be preferable - tungsten is used for armor-piercing cores.

In fact, gold can buy much more tungsten. Moreover, China has a ton of its own tungsten. In 2024, tungsten exports from China totaled 12 tons.

[Tatyana]

Against this backdrop, Germany and Saudi Arabia, as well as some other countries, are discussing the possibility of withdrawing their gold reserves from the US, as France did.
The US Treasury is silent, A full audit of American gold is postponed again.

Scammers are just that – scammers! Robbery and living at the expense of others – that’s the parasitic meaning of their entire lives!

[Nyrobsky]

I don't know why you were downvoted, but this fact actually took place.
Lying mattresses are, a priori, lying in everything.
After this incident, Germany wanted to export part of its reserves, but they were refused and were not allowed to inspect their ingots, not even allowing them to check the numbers.

[Umpteenth]

Can I get a link to the official information? I can't find it. Did China receive a fake and then wipe its hands of it? Did they make any claims or something?

[sdivt]

Quote: Enny

Can I get a link to the official information? I can't find it.

but there is no link)
All of this was mostly published in conspiracy blogs or in the yellow press, like our unforgettable SpeedInfo, but to seriously believe everything that's piled up there...

[Umpteenth]

It's funny. In China, they haven't heard of this at all, I get it.

[Al manah]

"In our club, it is customary to take gentlemen at their word." (c)

[Aken]

The French found a good solution.

[Modya]

This is what they paid for with the submarine contract with Australia.

[Starover_Z]

Quote from Aken

The French found a good solution.

That's true! Selling so-called, supposedly real gold bars and buying officially different ones on the international market is SUPER!

[Ross]

The Federal Reserve is the one keeping the reserves, and it has a magic printer. They'll print up some papers and buy them from Nabiullina, the same one who's been selling gold every year for the last few years.

[Nemo70]

Quote: Ross

The Federal Reserve is the one keeping the reserves, and it has a magic printer. They'll print up some papers and buy them from Nabiullina, the same one who's been selling gold every year for the last few years.

And she's constantly getting calls from the US Federal Reserve. "Raise your rates, slut!" Or we'll shoot off your ear. I remember they killed one head of the Central Bank in the 90s.

[aleks.29ru]

[/quote]I remember one head of the Central Bank was killed in the 90s...[quote]

And the khokhols killed him, but no one paid any attention to it then...

[qwertyui_1]

I remember one head of the Central Bank was killed in the 90s.

Which of the Central Bank leaders was killed?

[Sergey3]

She has been selling gold every year for the last few years.

Russia mines gold, buys some from private producers, and then sells it; the last sale was several months ago, at the peak of the price.

[vkfriendly]

Quote: Ross

The Federal Reserve is the one keeping the reserves, and it has a magic printer. They'll print up some papers and buy them from Nabiullina, the same one who's been selling gold every year for the last few years.

They sell gold in order to buy more gold from our gold mining companies, who sell it to the state cheaper. It's understandable, because the gold still needs to be refined to 999% pure gold and made into an ingot, and then the state sells it at world prices. A walrus for the Motherland's coffers.

[knn54]

-and the ingots moved.
From the first to the third, while checking the second...

[commbatant]

Quote: drags33

It's not just American gold that's depreciating, the US itself is depreciating... and quite rapidly, and in many areas at once...

Can you be specific, without slogans?

[vkfriendly]

Specifics? Follow our compatriots on YT. Those who live there will tell you a lot, even those who used to sing about paradise and muslin beaches. I follow one IT specialist, and not just any IT specialist, by the way, but one who worked at least as a senior IT specialist, if that means anything to you. He wrote several books on programming and knows more than one programming language. Now he's unemployed, delivering furniture in his truck while he waits for his next interview. The second blogger is a truck driver who's up to his neck in debt and doesn't know how to pay it. Rates dropped after COVID and haven't gone back up, but life has become incredibly expensive, with inflation, and now fuel prices have skyrocketed.
Screenshot of him refueling his truck.

[commbatant]

Quote: vkfriendly

Specifics? Follow our compatriots on YT.

It's a sin to laugh... I don't have access to it...
What you write can be said about any country...

[Altai2026]

I doubt the Americans have much gold left, especially now!

[eugen_caro]

We've been told that the US is depreciating for 30 years now (maybe even 60). But these bastards still won't die.... Even though, in reality, the US itself has it easy with its national debt and the lives of ordinary citizens... But nevertheless, the US continues to bend the whole world over, doesn't give a damn about its own people, and imposes its "rules" on everyone it doesn't care about - and these EVERYONE is being followed - instead of sending the State Department and its fantasies to hell... It's a paradox, though... and it simply begs the question - when will this country that exists IN DESPITE of logic finally calm down and take its place in the stable.


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[alexbor]

In the States themselves, the national debt is easy.

and they forgave everyone they owed... who will resist?

[eugen_caro]

Yes, they're making a move... - but for now they're being suppressed by the military - the National Guard... - in Pendostan, ever since that famous hurricane that wiped out half of Los Angeles, the number of homeless people has increased significantly - it's been more than 10 years already - and those who lost their homes don't even have a hope of getting their insurance, because no one even tore down their former neighborhoods - there are still half-rotted, half-ruined houses that are impossible to live in - there's a threat of an epidemic - and the residents live in cardboard shantytowns, drink themselves to death, save themselves... the American dream... but the authorities don't care - there are more important things to do - suppress resistance in other regions of the world...

[Irek]

China has already received tungsten instead of gold once, but they didn’t make a fuss.

[maxxavto]

steel!!! the ingots were replaced

[TermNachTer]

I read about this too. But, admittedly, it was only in passing, without much specificity. However, the Chinese weren't the first. General de Gaulle was the first, after which there were civil unrest in France and he was forced out.

[maxxavto]

only the gold in this case was REAL!!!

[Lptsk]

Degol was beaten for Algeria

[Amin_vivec]

Right after he withdrew gold from the US, suddenly this Algerian issue flared up))) And before that, no one cared))) Someone pulled the asset out of the closet just in time)))

[TermNachTer]

Why the hell do students from the Sorbonne and other French universities need Algeria? Don't they have anything better to do?

[Andrey Malashchenkov]

More details about this here

https://vkpb-skb.ru/index.php/ideologiya-ekonomika-politika/664-2011-09-15-05-55-35

S. Dunaev: Is there tungsten in US vaults instead of gold?
Details Created September 15, 2011

[Nexcom]

..lead is cheaper and heavier. Note to Americans...

[Andrey Malashchenkov]

Tungsten is heavier than lead. The density of tungsten under normal conditions is 19,25 g / cm³, and lead - 11,34 g/cm³. Thus, tungsten is almost twice as dense as lead.
ru.wikipedia.org*
Gold of 999 assay value has a very high density, 19,3 g / cm3, this is almost twice as much as lead

[Aken]

Everyone knows about this. I even saw a video online. There are three rods in the cross-section.

[Junior Private]

The lead ingot is gold-plated and galvanized with tungsten.

[isv000]

Quote: Junior Private

The lead ingot is gold-plated and galvanized with tungsten.

Witchcraft! Alchemy!

[alexoff]

Well, lead and tungsten are also useful things in the household, we were thinking of buying gold, but there are so many other goodies there

[isv000]

Quote from alexoff

Well, lead and tungsten are also useful things in the household, we were thinking of buying gold, but there are so many other goodies there

How many light bulbs can you make!..

[Nexcom]

...and lead can be used to make batteries...

[Starover_Z]

Quote: Nexcom

...and lead can be used to make batteries...

How much does a "liter" of lead and a "liter" of gold cost?!
Gold batteries must be used for cost recovery!

[Aken]

There were tungsten rods inside the ingot.

[Nemo70]

Quote: Irek

China has already received tungsten instead of gold once, but they didn’t make a fuss.

Yeah, right.. The media is all under the control of the Jews.. How many times have the Chinese been screwed already.. They have trillions in US bonds and debt obligations.. Trump knows this!!

[Mini Mokik]

Nope. Not trillions.

**As of February 2026, according to the latest data from the US Treasury Department, China holds about $693,3 billion in US government bonds.

However, the February data is considered outdated. It's more important to pay attention to two key signals:

· An absolute low in recent years. In February, China reduced its investment slightly, by $1,1 billion. Since January 2025, the volume has already fallen by 9%, and is now the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis.
· A clear long-term downward trend. The current portfolio is almost half the size of its 2013 peak (approximately $1,32 trillion). This is widely seen as a planned strategic adjustment.

[Nemo70]

Quote: Mini Mokik

China holds about $693,3 billion in US government bonds.

So they dumped it and many countries around the world are quietly getting rid of these pieces of paper. Trump is raging and throwing, he wants to make the USA great again with the help of bombs. But something is not working for him. The Russians are to blame!!

[Poplar]

The Russians are to blame!!

And Iran. And Iran is also illegally extracting American oil on its own territory. So there you have it! :-)

[alexoff]

And the money is being taken out and invested in infrastructure projects in other countries. And these countries are really annoying the US and keeping it up at night; all the money should go to the US.

[isv000]

Quote: Irek

China has already received tungsten instead of gold once, but they didn’t make a fuss.

They didn't make a fuss, they simply turned a blind eye to the officials' copyright infringement. And then Ostapov went off the deep end...

[tatarin1972]

The Germans and Arabs would like to withdraw, but who will let them?

[Nemo70]

Quote: tatarin1972

The Germans and Arabs would like to withdraw, but who will let them?

Yes, their mouths are shut immediately..)))

[tralflot1832]

This news borders on fantasy: where did the Americans buy this gold with unusual fineness? From which "Gypsies"? I get it—they bought it from Gypsies and were guarded by Jews. Or maybe it was the other way around. I don't get it!!!

[cpls22]

Quote: tralflot1832

This news is bordering on fantasy: where did the Americans buy this gold with non-standard samples?

Maybe they robbed you?

[Nemo70]

Quote from cpls22

Quote: tralflot1832

This news is bordering on fantasy: where did the Americans buy this gold with non-standard samples?

Maybe they robbed you?

Yes, they have this in their mentality, especially when 90% of the US Congress is Jewish.

[Cube123]

Quote: Nemo70

Yes, they have this in their mentality, especially when 90% of the US Congress is Jewish.

Anecdote on:
Joke No. 1041100187
The rabbi gathered all the Jews in the city and said to them:
- Do you know why Russians don’t like us?
Because we don't know how to drink vodka. Bring us a bottle of vodka tomorrow,
We will merge them into one vat and learn to drink.

Everyone agreed. One Jew thought:
- If everyone brings a bottle of vodka, and only I bring a bottle of water,
no one will notice.

The next day, all the Jews come with bottles and pour them into one vat.
The rabbi pours a shot from there, tries it and says:
"Pure water. That's why the Russians don't like us!"

[ergh081]

I might add: they're not liked anywhere for this. It's no secret.

[Nemo70]

Quote: Cube123

"Pure water. That's why the Russians don't like us!"

If there's no water in the tap, they drank it.
This is not a joke... The Arabs did it this way... They drilled an artesian well next to an oasis and pumped out the water... The oasis dried up and the Arabs left...))))
They know how to act quietly... But now they are brazenly killing everyone in a row and the UN is no authority for them)))

[Cympak]

Quote: tralflot1832

Where did the Americans buy this gold with non-standard samples?

Most likely, this is "old" gold, produced in the 19th or early 20th century. Melting it down to modern standard would be no problem. If, of course, there really is gold there...

[alexoff]

It's well known that during the Great Depression, gold was confiscated from the population. It's still stored there. And probably diluted.

[solar]

Where did the Americans buy this gold with non-standard finenesses? From which "gypsies"?

At one time, gold coins were in circulation, including in the United States. They were then removed from circulation and melted down into bars. These bars contain the same percentage of gold as the corresponding coins.

The gold bars stored in the vault are approximately seven inches long, 3,5 inches wide, and 1,75 inches thick. Each of these bars contains the equivalent of 400 troy ounces (12,4 kg) of pure gold, although they vary in composition. Mint bars contain at least 99,5% gold, while bars from melted gold coins contain as much gold as was originally in the coins.[45]

The 1934 London Good Delivery List, published by the London Gold Market (the predecessor of the London Bullion Market Association), defined bullion from melted coins as "containing from 899 to 901 ppm or from 915½ to 917 ppm, containing from 350 to 420 ounces of fine gold."[46] These two purity levels reflect the composition of modern gold coins. US coins minted between 1838 and 1933 contain 90% gold and 10% copper.[47] British coins contain 22 parts gold out of 24 (91⅔%). These low gold percentages contrast with the over 99,9% gold content of gold bullion coins minted in modern times. The older coins were intended for circulation, while the newer ones are not.

There's no sensation here. All of this has long been known and publicly announced.

In 2011, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Affairs released complete inventories of the U.S. Treasury Department's gold bullion holdings in preparation for a hearing entitled: "Investigating H.R. 1495, the Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2011, and Oversight of the U.S. Gold Stockpile."[48] According to the inventory, 64% of the gold coins in the vault have a fineness between 899 and 901; 2% have a fineness between 901,1 and 915,4; 17% have a fineness between 915,5 and 917; and 17% have a fineness greater than or equal to 995. The average fineness is 916,7.[49][50]

[Illanatol]

They didn't buy it anywhere. They simply tampered with the real bars a bit, reducing the purity and adding low-value impurities. If they reduced the gold content by 5% from 1 tons, that would be... that would be a crazy amount of money!

[Eugene 62]

Apparently, now we need to send the substandard bars back to the refinery. They'll be remelted there, and then we'll find out how much gold they actually contain. We could conduct a lab project for schoolchildren on Archimedes' Principle, examining ingots using this simplified method of the ancient scholar.

[nepunamemuk]

We could conduct a lab project for schoolchildren on Archimedes' Principle, examining ingots using this simplified method of the ancient scholar.

it will not work
Tungsten is very close in density
so we’ll have to use Shura Balaganov’s method🧐

[Cube123]

Quote: Eugen 62

It would be possible to conduct a laboratory work on the topic of Archimedes' Principle for schoolchildren.

This won't confirm anything. The specific gravity of tungsten (19,25 g/cm³) and gold (for 999,9-purity gold, the specific gravity is 19,32 g/cm³) are almost identical. The difference is 0,36%. Any impurities will cause a significant error. The fineness can always be blamed. This is precisely why tungsten is ideal for counterfeiting.

[RuAbel]

This is a case where show-offs are worth more than money. Recent world events confirm economists' beliefs that America is sustained by the petrodollar, and Fort Knox is simply a fairy tale.

[isv000]

Quote from Ruabel

Recent events in the world confirm the opinion of economists that America is based on the petrodollar,

The entire history of the Anglo-Saxons in general, and the United States in particular, points to a policy of plunder and the violent overthrow of regimes that refuse to "share." If the Yankees pat you on the shoulder while you're signing a "treaty," it means they've already made up their minds and are forming a group to expropriate your property...

[scientist]

Quote: isv000

They have already decided and are forming a group to expropriate your property.

If an agreement stipulates settlements in American currency, whoever signs it automatically becomes an American slave. Currently, the dollar accounts for over 40% of global trade, and there's no sign of a decline, despite the efforts of BRICS. This means that 40% of the world's goods and resources service not only the US national debt but also the well-being of Americans themselves, effectively enslaving them. This is essentially modern neocolonialism. And those unwilling to support American and European currencies with their resources and goods automatically fall under NATO's military steamroller. This is the main reason Russia has become the West's main enemy and the reason for their war with Iran.
No one cares about the gold reserves at Fort Knox anymore. If the US vaults were to be empty of any gold at all, nothing would change in their scheme to plunder other nations.

[Andrey Gladkikh]

Korea isn't a fairy tale, but a legend, the circulation of which has always been and continues to be supported by the US authorities. That is, it's the same fairy tale, but with some basis in fact.

[tralflot1832]

France did not take gold out of the USA, it sold it to American banks and in the whole chain - gold - $ - € there are American banks (five-liter ).You still need to know how to sell gold.

[TermNachTer]

So that the mattress makers don't get their share from the toad-eaters))) - this can't happen.

[Nemo70]

Quote: tralflot1832

France did not take gold out of the USA, it sold it to American banks and in the whole chain - gold - $ - € there are American banks (five-liter ).You still need to know how to sell gold.

De Gaulle, I remember, loaded a cargo ship with American bills and demanded they return it in gold. They took it off immediately!!! Gaddafi also blurted out something about a gold dinar and selling oil for national currency. They killed him brutally and destroyed the country.
The Russians have taken all this into account and are slowly extinguishing the dollar and the US economy.

[Cube123]

Quote: Nemo70

Gaddafi also blurted out something about a gold dinar and selling oil for national currency. They killed him brutally and destroyed the country.

Saddam Hussein refused to sell oil for gold. He decided to sell it for euros. He was hanged. After declaring at the IMF that the dollar had become unreliable and that another asset needed to be found as a replacement, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was immediately jailed for raping Nafissatou Diallo, a maid at the Sofitel New York hotel. The case was later dismissed, but it cost him his post as President of France.

[balabol]

Part of the US gold reserves turned out to be illiquid - illiquid assets are what no one needs. These are simply old bars with a purity of 999; they need to be further refined at refineries. Yes, this involves some expense, but the reserve value takes into account the value of pure gold in bars. We decided it was easier to account for them with a purity of 999.

[balabol]

There was a mistake in the previous comment - old 900 fineness bars.
If the author or readers would take a couple of minutes, they could find some really interesting material on this issue of gold in the Fed.
1. Before the 19th century: gold was coins, not bars.
Gold was used in the form of coins, not bars.
The coins were not pure gold - copper and silver were added for strength (gold is too soft).
The most common sample is 900 (22 karat) - the so-called "coin gold".
examples:
Country Coin Sample Years of circulation
UK Sovereign 916.7 (22K) 1816–1932
USA Gold Eagle, Double Eagle 900 (21.6K) 1795–1933
France Napoleon 900 1803–1914
Russia Gold Chervonets 900 1897–1917
These coins were kept in state treasuries, but not in the form of ingots - they were a means of circulation, not a reserve.

2. 19th century: the gold standard and the beginning of the transition to bullion
After the establishment of the Gold Standard (Great Britain, 1816; USA, 1873; Germany, 1871), countries began to fix the exchange rate of their currencies to gold.
This required reliable, standardized reserves—not coins, but bullion.
Coin gold (900) was unsuitable for reserves because it had different weights and finenesses.
The coins could have been worn out, counterfeited, or minted in different countries.
3. Late 19th – early 20th century: the appearance of 999.9 ingots
Banks and central banks began to demand pure gold.
The London market became the center of global gold circulation and introduced the 995 standard (in the 1880s), later 999.5, and by the 1920s–1930s 999.9.
Major refiners (PAMP, Umicore, Argor-Heraeus) began producing 999.9-karat bars for central banks. In 1934 (after ending the gold standard for citizens), the United States introduced strict regulations for gold reserves:
Only bars of at least 99.5% purity;
Almost everything - 99.99%.
Even if a country (for example, France or Russia) held 900-proof coins in the 19th century, it wasn't a "gold reserve" in the modern sense. It was cash money.
4. Some countries "stored" 900-carat gold, not as a reserve, but as a means of payment or currency.
for example
USA: Until 1933, 900-purity gold coins were kept as legal tender.
France: kept Napoleon gold coins (900) - they circulated in the economy.
Russia: until 1917 – chervonets of 900 fineness – the main monetary unit.
But when these countries wanted to store gold in London or New York for international transactions, they melted the coins down into 999.9 bars.
The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York archives record Russia bringing 500 tons of 900-purity coins to London in 1914 and then melting them down into 400-ounce 999.9-purity bars for storage at the Bank of England.

Why did 999.9 become the norm?
1922: Geneva Conference - Countries agreed on standards for international gold circulation.
1930s: The London Gold Fixing is established.
1944: Bretton Woods System - Gold became the basis of the world monetary system and only 999.9 was recognized.
All central banks in the world (including China, Russia, India) store only 999.9 gold bars.
Today, 900-purity gold is a historical artifact. No modern central bank holds gold with a purity lower than 995—and even 995 is already considered obsolete. 999.9 is not a choice, but a necessity.

[Michael]

Most of the US gold reserves turned out to be illiquid.

[Nemo70]

Quote: Michael

Most of the US gold reserves turned out to be illiquid.

Where is Zina's gold???
I took it to a beauty salon...Haven't you noticed how beautiful I've become?
You fool, pack your things, we're leaving for the village again...

[Million]

Who will check it? As long as the US is the world leader, this is impossible.

[isv000]

Fort Knox has long held most of its ingots of painted clay. When the Anunnaki arrive, they'll rip the heads off the "guardians"...

[former soldier]

I wouldn't be surprised if the "gold bars" in Fort Knox were cast in China from silumin, the same zinc alloy with the same name as most cheap Chinese household plumbing fittings.

[Andy_nsk]

I wouldn't be surprised if the "gold bars" in Fort Knox were cast in China from silumin, the same zinc alloy with the same name as most cheap Chinese household plumbing fittings.

That's unlikely. Silumin and gold differ in weight by several times... it's easier to believe the gold-plated tungsten... but that's not certain either.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Most gold is illiquid.

in the sense of gold-plated tungsten?
There seems to have been a story with the Chinese and American "gold"

[K-50]

The US gold reserves are largely made up of substandard bars that do not meet modern standards and cannot be used in international transactions.

Well, I think refining at a certified manufacturer would easily fix that. If only there was something to it.
It wouldn’t have turned out that the gold that was masquerading as substandard was actually garbage and not gold at all.

[rocket757]

The king may be naked, but that's not his only strength...

[Mikhail3]

The US dollar is based on the premise that an explosion of inflation will devalue the colossal US debt—the mountains of paper accumulated by governments around the world. And all the world's governments are terrified of being forced to admit it's just paper. And the loans accumulated against this paper are countless...
The US gobbled up other countries' gold reserves long ago. Capitalism, after all! Why is this gold just lying around, especially if it's someone else's, and no one demands an accounting for it?! There's nothing there, and there can't be! But the situation is like with the dollar—no government can admit they sold their gold to the US for a fraction of the price, with nothing to return, and they know it. They'll be eaten alive...
The US itself started making a fuss. Because they want to forgive everyone's debts. And the Indians' problems...

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Quite interesting... Does anyone really expect them to be allowed into a vault for inventory? And why would "some countries" need to store their gold reserves in the US? Even if officially requested, refusing to inventory would have an extremely negative impact on the US and global economies. So, let them keep storing the alloyed blanks....

[Roman_4]

Quote: tralflot1832

This news borders on fantasy: where did the Americans buy this gold with unusual fineness? From which "Gypsies"? I get it—they bought it from Gypsies and were guarded by Jews. Or maybe it was the other way around. I don't get it!!!

So, if we briefly take a gold bar with a purity of 999 from storage, melt it down, and cast a small amount of it into a small mold, then add a cheaper metal to the main melt for the same amount, we'll end up with the same gold bar, with a slightly different purity, but believe me, the same color and weight. Nothing changes at all except the purity. And yet, all the bars are still there, and we have a little extra gold. And with the tungsten gold, it was a prank; they were bars from a joke bank; kids were playing, accidentally mixed them up, and sent them to China.

[Fangaro]

"Against this backdrop, Germany and Saudi Arabia, as well as several other countries, are discussing the possibility of withdrawing their gold reserves from the US, as France did. The US Treasury is silent, and a full audit of American gold is once again being postponed."

Germany and the SA would rather show the middle finger than give up their bullion.
There aren't enough commercial ingots for all the smart guys, and not handing over the commercial ones is a great sin. It's easier to apologize and promise to make things right.

[Prisoner]

So they "hegemonize" even before the "Gypsy gold".

[Livonetc]

But the mattress is puffy and bare.:)

[bambr731]

To be supplied to global markets and traded internationally, gold must have a fineness of 995 or higher, but only 17% of the bars at Fort Knox meet these standards. The rest is low-grade gold. 64% of the bars have a fineness between 899 and 901, while the average fineness of the entire US gold reserve does not exceed 916. Such standards do not even exist in the Russian system.

The Yankees have long since become freaks. More show-offs. Iran is giving them a good grooming. And if others join in, Trump will definitely be shaved bald.

[Panadol]

Do you think the Cold War was just a coincidence? The American dream had to be paid for somehow.
The entire so-called free world is based on lies.

[snow mountain]

The gypsies stole the gold
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[Vertuhai 2003]

The whole country is a fake, even the gold reserves...

[easy]

And if you recall the relatively recent news about American gold transferred to China, it's a complete disaster. Many of the bars were fake—instead of solid gold, they contained tungsten blanks, which are four times cheaper than gold. In short, the Colorados are complete swindlers and don't have enough valuables in their state reserves to cover even half of their national debt. They're broke!

[tralflot1832]

Quote from solar

Where did the Americans buy this gold with non-standard finenesses? From which "gypsies"?

At one time, gold coins were in circulation, including in the United States. They were then removed from circulation and melted down into bars. These bars contain the same percentage of gold as the corresponding coins.

The gold bars stored in the vault are approximately seven inches long, 3,5 inches wide, and 1,75 inches thick. Each of these bars contains the equivalent of 400 troy ounces (12,4 kg) of pure gold, although they vary in composition. Mint bars contain at least 99,5% gold, while bars from melted gold coins contain as much gold as was originally in the coins.[45]

The 1934 London Good Delivery List, published by the London Gold Market (the predecessor of the London Bullion Market Association), defined bullion from melted coins as "containing from 899 to 901 ppm or from 915½ to 917 ppm, containing from 350 to 420 ounces of fine gold."[46] These two purity levels reflect the composition of modern gold coins. US coins minted between 1838 and 1933 contain 90% gold and 10% copper.[47] British coins contain 22 parts gold out of 24 (91⅔%). These low gold percentages contrast with the over 99,9% gold content of gold bullion coins minted in modern times. The older coins were intended for circulation, while the newer ones are not.

There's no sensation here. All of this has long been known and publicly announced.

In 2011, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Affairs released complete inventories of the U.S. Treasury Department's gold bullion holdings in preparation for a hearing entitled: "Investigating H.R. 1495, the Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2011, and Oversight of the U.S. Gold Stockpile."[48] According to the inventory, 64% of the gold coins in the vault have a fineness between 899 and 901; 2% have a fineness between 901,1 and 915,4; 17% have a fineness between 915,5 and 917; and 17% have a fineness greater than or equal to 995. The average fineness is 916,7.[49][50]

Thank you, the author needs to be more careful with sensationalism. But one can try.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

What a horror, how can we live in the USA, it looks like it will fall apart tomorrow.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

This doesn't stop us from bowing down to the US.

[commbatant]

Against this backdrop, Germany and Saudi Arabia, as well as some other countries, are discussing the possibility of withdrawing their gold reserves from the US, as France did.

It’s strange that the decaying FRG (the so-called economic locomotive of the EU) did this earlier.
And the KSA, like other US tobaccos in the Middle East, will also drink up US government bonds; the US has some idea of ​​this, so the Persian monarchies, thanks to US inaction, will not survive a war with Iran.

[icy]

"Everything was stolen there before us." (C) movie "Operation Y".

[Uma palata]

Well, whoever lowered the percentage of government gold, whoever jacked up the trust percentage, the authorities have to live somehow.

[Toljna935]

Why waste your gold and other liquid assets? There's rich Russia, and it's full of suckers. There are Europeans, but they're smart. Europeans are smart! Laugh at Ursulochka and Kaya, laugh, you idiots. Here, Orban teased us with a carrot and agreed to give Ukraine 90 billion, now it's the turn of a Bulgarian official to sing the same tune, and these papers are backed by our seized assets, and Russia will open up oil to Europe—the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine really need diesel fuel. Hungary will buy cheap oil from Russia, REFINE IT INTO DIESEL FUEL, and SELL IT TO THE ARMY AT AN INSANE PRICE. Russia will be left with nothing, Hungary will have a huge profit, and Ukraine will have diesel fuel! That's the whole story of the cream and the pie. Our children studied at Harvard and Yale, and their mothers and grandmothers didn't read them Russian fairy tales, so they grew up morons. And we'll open up gas flows to Germany through renovated pipelines across the Baltic at bargain prices, and cheap energy, just like the time when joint ventures between Ukraine and Germany were possible. Orban will use the money against Russia. All that's left is to chew on snot, and a new Hitler will emerge, and we'll have a new Drang Nach Osten. There are no words left—only obscene, unprintable language.

[Maks1995]

Another yellow victory, IMHO...
If the US is already using hundred-year-old dollars and all sorts of strange issues...

then no one was especially bothered with old gold bars and coins...
And the fact that they don't fall under modern standards... IMHO, most countries in the world would be envious of such problems...

[don_Reba]

Quote: Author (Vladimir Lytkin)

Interesting news regarding American gold reserves appeared a couple of days ago, but it was published in specialized publications, so not everyone was able to read it.

🥱 Do you always post such gems with links?
And without links, “that’s why not everyone was able to read it.”
One old woman said: this will do.
But in the “specialized publications that not only milk everyone™️” everything is described:
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/fort-knox-gold-scandal-202604162310

https://www.mining.com/us-lawmakers-push-for-comprehensive-audit-of-fort-knox-gold/#:~:text=The%20bill's%20introduction%20comes%20a,would%20face%20recurring%20reviews%20thereafter.

https://bullion.directory/ft-knox-full-of-impure-gold-unfit-for-international-transactions/#:~:text=The%20bulk%20of%20the%20U.S.,Metals%20CEO%20Stefan%20Gleason%20said.
Short:
"Franklin D. Roosevelt and Executive Order 6102, signed April 5, 1933. This order effectively made most private gold ownership illegal and moved gold out of private hands and into government control."
So they all handed it over en masse,
mostly with a content of 90%, melted, coins, bars, for $20,67 per ounce, then revaluation, markdown, shrinkage of gold$.
It would be better if the author “specializedly” explained the National Welfare Fund.
What does the Russian electorate care about American gold?

[sir Garry]

So where are the downsides here? Excellent news, in my opinion!!!