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I always thought a great movie could be made about a group trying to steal Fort Knox's gold in an elaborate way. Their plan succeeds, but then they find the fort empty except for a receipt dated 1964. The last line in the movie is "I guess were not the first ones to think up a way of robbing Fort Knox.".

I think you should retitle this post by adding the phrase " like my trunk..." Fort Knox has no gold in it.

I heard these guys heisted it:

Vicente says

I heard these guys heisted it:

Unlikely. To them gold is worthless unless its pressed with latinum

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

New Renter says

Vicente says

I heard these guys heisted it:

Unlikely. To them gold is worthless unless its pressed with latinum

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

I hate to nit-pick, but the gold is still worthless. It is essentially just a "container" for the latinum.

leo707 says

New Renter says

Vicente says

I heard these guys heisted it:

Unlikely. To them gold is worthless unless its pressed with latinum

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Latinum

I hate to nit-pick, but the gold is still worthless. It is essentially just a "container" for the latinum.

Like I said.

No one on this board knows anything about the Fort Knox gold. It is only a rather useless metal, anyway. I heard they heisted all of the bitcoins, too.

It is easy to find out how much gold is in Fort Knox or in any central banks' vault, this is to audit and physically count them. Such a request was actually motioned, but Congress voted it down.

What is shocking is that government leases its gold to "bullion bank" for a rent fee like 0.25% annually. Government gets paid the rent and now has actually no gold in the vault. The bullion bank in turn sell the gold 10 times over, like fractional banking. The gold are now paper gold which are actively traded.

Germany asks to get 5%(or a small portion, something like that) of their gold back. Since there is actually no physical gold, the German were told it would take 5 years.