Tag: Fort Knox

  • Where Is The Fort Knox Gold? Fake Gold Bars

    Gold in the US , Fort Knox, is suspect.

    Fort Knox Gold.
    This imaged article from 1981 and excerpted commentary below it will set the landscape for the scandal that is just now unraveling before the world. To date, we have not been able to uncover any official refutations, disclaimers or denials from the USG or Federal Reserve. http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/811215_FtKnoxGold_globe.jpg
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    Gold is reported to have been missing or misappropriated .

    Only Live Science.com says it is there.

    No other verification.

    Read this.

    Most of the official gold reserves must be located in the Fort Knox vault, which was expressly built before the Second World War. It accumulated the gold bought for $20.00 per troy ounce from individuals and companies all across the US according to a decree issued by President Franklin Roosevelt. Most of the gold came from the banks comprising the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and they received the so-called gold certificates, which in turn were declared in their balance sheets. Some call this a coercive buyout of metal but was actually a confiscation of gold. Upon completion of the operation the price of gold was revised at $35.00.

    There were no regular controls over the American gold since the beginning of the 50’s. There were only some random checks. After the closure of the «gold window» in the early 70’s (suspension of gold for dollars convertibility), it was decided to audit the reserves. Some random audits were carried out between 1974 and 1986, and were suspended following pressure exerted by the Inspector General of the Department of Finance.

    Doubts about the availability of the US gold reserves have been growing in the USA and other countries for the last 10-15 years. The following versions are being discussed:

    1. The American Treasury’s gold remains in place, but since it’s subject to various transactions (i.e. instrumental as collateral), it currently does not belong to the Treasury.

    2. The gold from the official treasuries is no longer in the depository (not in full as listed in the Department of Finance’s accountability). It was moved following sale, leasing and credit operations.

    3. There actually are gold bars in the reserves which correspond to the quantities accounted by the Department of Finance, but they are all or partially fake gold bars. In order to hide the illegal removal of the gold, the real bars were replaced by fake ones made of tungsten.

    4. The gold in the official reserves does no longer belong to the Treasury, it has been returned to the banks (from which it originated in the 30’s). The US government borrowed such large sums from the FRS member banks, that the Treasury was forced to repay in gold.

    Many critics of the FRS note that the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury are communicating vessels, and the official gold reserves formally belonging to the government, are in fact under control of the banksters.

    2. The Congress of the USA calls for a gold audit

    Those who initiated procedures for an audit of the US’s gold reserves are working on two fronts: they are demanding for an audit of the Federal Reserve and of the Treasury of the United States. There were several attacks on the Federal Reserve following the first wave of the financial crisis. In the middle of 2012, the United States House of Representatives supported a draft bill for a full audit of the Federal Reserve. But the bill hasn’t been passed, since the banking community motivated against the audit has many allies in the US Senate. There might be a leakage of secret information regarding their cooperation with the Treasury for an illegal use of the gold reserves, including a secret allocation by the Federal Reserve of $16 trillion to major American and foreign banks during the last financial crisis.

    According to some critics of the Federal Reserve, the money rulers of the US have set aside any possible discretion and have forsaken any secrecy in their illegal operations… Here’s one such good example. In 2004 and 2005, the Treasury accountability determined the gold reserves as worth $10,924 million (the official cost of the gold is still based on the 1973 cost, in round figures at about 42 per troy ounce). But the consolidated balance sheet of the Federal Reserve lists its gold certificates as worth $11,036 million. Such discrepancy is not acceptable; the net worth value of the gold reserve has to coincide with the volume of the gold certificates. This arisen inconsistency of $112 million is a contravention of the Gold Reserve Act. Even though the money rulers have restored the 2006 balance (having noticed their bungle), a feeling remains that the banksters are busy pursuing illegal gold transactions.”

    Fake Gold in Fort Knox?

    It’s one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly notify the banks on how to recognize these phony bills and retail outlets usually have procedures in place (such as special pens to test the paper) to stop their proliferation.

    But what about gold? This is the most sacred of all commodities because it is thought to be the most trusted, reliable and valuable means of saving wealth.

    A recent discovery — in October of 2009 — has been suppressed by the main stream media but has been circulating among the “big money” brokers and financial kingpins and is just now being revealed to the public. It involves the gold in Fort Knox — the US Treasury gold — that is the equity of our national wealth. In short, millions (with an “m”) of gold bars are fake!

    http://www.infowars.com/fake-gold-bars-in-bank-of-england-and-fort-knox/

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-gold-reserve-audit-show/5326810#

    The point is there is evasion and uncertainty about the Gold in Fort Knox.

    If Nations cheat the International Monetary System how does one expect the world Currencies to be stable?

    The purpose of the series of posts is talk about Falling Indian Rupee and not US malpractices.

    Therefore I leave this at that and proceed on Indian Economy to-day.

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    Read this from the Link:

    AUDIO LETTER(R)” is a registered trademark of Audio Books, Inc., a Texas corporation, which originally produced this tape recording. Reproduced under open license granted by Audio Books, Inc.
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    This is the Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER(R), 1629 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20006.
    Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is December 27, 1981, and this is my AUDIO LETTER(R) No. 70.

    Topic #3–

    For eight years now the powers that be here in America have kept a blackout on the covered up FORT KNOX GOLD SCANDAL in our allegedly free press, but outside the United States there is a new upsurge of journalistic interest in what has happened to our gold.

    Source:

    http://www.24hgold.com/english/contributor.aspx?article=4334464086G10020&contributor=Charleston+voice

    http://ramanisblog.in/2013/09/26/falling-rupee-vs-us/

    http://ramanisblog.in/2013/09/26/rupee-and-exchange-rate/

  • Rupee And Exchange Rate

    Let’s take the Home analogy further to understand Exchange Rates.

    Gold Bars.
    Gold Bars.

    When you can not meet your expenses, you borrow, say, from your neighbor.

    Nothing will go wrong if he does not borrow like you.

    If he borrows from the next man, the cycle of borrowing goes on and extends through out your city.

    Here money you actually have has not increased.

    What happens is that you get money from some one who has spare(because his Wants are less than yours) and on a large-scale  the artificial money is high when compared to the produce available.

    So the city gets things from the next city or where the produce is available.

    The hitch is they are also running into the same confusion of artificial money there.

    This cycle goes on.

    This is exactly what is happening to the World Economy now.

    Another point to note is that when you buy from the others as a produce, it has to be valued.

    Barter system did not have this problem.

    You wanted something which you do not have ,another man has and has no need of it when you ask him.

    The question of Money and valuation does not arise.

    Thanks to Money Value system, some Value has to be fixed as Values of products vary.

    Some joker said God is the standard and fixed it as a medium of exchange.

    That is when you want  to pay others you pay a in a Currency the value of which is determined by the Gold your group, in this case, the Government holds.

    The fallacy here is that the price of Gold is not Fixed and it is variable, though currency is linked to Gold taking Gold Value as Fixed.

    To prevent the process of not having adequate Gold every Nation has to maintain a Gold Reserve.

    It is unsaid that if one country does not or can not pay the Gold it has, can be sold by the Debtor to realize his dues.

    Fun is that who will buy that and at what rate!

    This option has never been resorted to nor even talked about .

    Linked Exchange System.

    A system of managing a nation’s currency and exchange rate by linking the national currency to another base currency that is held at a fixed ratio in deposit at domestic banks.

    Once the exchange rate is set, there is typically no interference from the government or through monetary policy decisions that will affect the exchange rate. Currency is only issued when there are reserves in the linked currency to back it up. If the exchange rate begins to shift from the fixed ratio, currency is immediately added to or taken out of circulation to bring the ratio back into balance.

    This is different from simply pegging one currency to another; in a linked exchange rate system, currency can only be issued when confirmed reserves in the linked currency are held at local banking institutions. In Hong Kong, for example, this means that every Hong Kong dollar that is floating around in the economy is backed by several U.S. dollars held in reserve.

    The advantage of this system is that it stabilizes the currency and keeps inflation ultra low. On the downside, the nation using it can’t leverage advantages in trading with foreign partners, and can’t carry out monetary policy to adapt to shifts in the domestic economy.

    Now the cost of Excavation of Gold is shooting up,

    When the cost of the Fixed Gold is variable, how come the related exchange rate is expected to remain constant?

    The people are paid, at the Mine itself based on the value of Gold at a predetermined Price while the Gold  they extract is costlier.

    Can there be anything sillier than this?

    Underlying problems are these in Gold Standard.

    1.Gold Price is variable and not fixed, it is fixed in the minds of Politicians, economists.

    2.Demand goes up every year, from Governments and Public, leading to less Produce more demand.

    3.There is high speculative market in Gold, akin to Online trading where no physical transaction place;everything is notional and paper Transaction to ensure demand and hence Profits.

    4.Fundamental of any sound economic system is Savings.

    To ensure Global economic stability all Nations must ensure the habit of Savings backed by Manufacturing .

    The greatest culprit is the self-proclaimed and yes-men of the world, is the USA.

    `It has disproportionate demand to what it produces and gobbles up be it energy or electronics.

    people think it is because of its Economy.

    No it is because of its military might Nations imagine it it o be a Giant in Economy.

    If the US stops its Imports it is gone with no Gold Reserves.

    Now this brings the issue of Gold that is in Fort Knox.

    Gold as we have seen is the bedrock on which the Exchange System is Built up.

    What is in Fort Knox, US?

    An estimated $130 billion in gold was in Fort Knox.(2012)

    Is it?

    Reference;

     http://www.livescience.com/32328-how-much-gold-is-in-fort-knox.html      

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/linked-exchangerate-system.asp

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  • Obama to China,’Enough is enough’-Really?

    President Barack Obama talks with Chinese Pres...
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    The US would like the world to follow economic policies that would benefit the US and it has been following Protectionism since long; creating conditions for US business where none existed, even by the use of force.

    Crying foul on Chinese currency is childish.

    Is not the dollar artificially propped up now?

    Does US have enough Reserve in Fort Knox and will it to an an international inspection to verify its Reserves?

    The problem of US is one of overspending with no savings and deficit financing.

    Unless this is corrected there is no way out.

    Nations like Pakistan beg but US uses military might to live-not much of a difference. 

    “Enough’s enough,” Obama said bluntly at a closing news conference of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where he scored a significant breakthrough in his push to create a pan-Pacific free trade zone and promote green technologies.

    Using some of his toughest language yet against China, Obama, a day after face-to-face talks with President Hu Jintao, demanded that China stop “gaming” the international system and create a level playing field for U.S. and other foreign businesses.

    “We’re going to continue to be firm that China operate by the same rules as everyone else,” Obama told reporters after hosting the 21-nation APEC summit in his native Honolulu. “We don’t want them taking advantage of the United States.”

    China shot back that it refused to abide by international economic rules that it had no part in writing.

    “First we have to know whose rules we are talking about,” Pang Sen, a deputy director-general at China’s Foreign Ministry said.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/14/us-apec-idUSTRE7AB12920111114