Stephen Mihm: What’s fueling America’s gold bar conspiracy

What's fueling America's gold bar conspiracy

Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen the shiny stuff. They want to visit and see it with their own eyes.

ThePatriotLight - What’s fueling America's gold bar conspiracy

ThePatriotLight - Fort Knox, home to much of America’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: U.S. President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen the shiny stuff. They want to visit and see it with their own eyes.It’s tempting to dismiss this demand as paranoid raving, but history suggests there are more interesting forces at play here. The last time this happened — a full-t…

Stephen Mihm: What’s fueling America’s gold bar conspiracy

Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen the shiny stuff. They want to visit…

It is a treasure valued at more than $400 billion: the US gold reserves in Fort Knox. Although the country’s president, Donald Trump, has doubts that they are still in federal custody and wants to open the chamber, accompanied by Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, to make sure that no one has taken a loot that was treasured to back the dollar. Read