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PhilH's avatar

When everyone wants their money that’s called a bank run. His “everyone stay calm” rings a bit hollow. If they could’ve paid, they would’ve paid.

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Alyosha's avatar

Gm sir, I don't understand this. Could you restate or phrase it as a question? tyvm...

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Dave Groom's avatar

Thank you, Maggie, timely!

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Matthew Hogg's avatar

There’s 10 million federal employees. I’m sure they could audit the gold quickly .

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Sven Juis's avatar

You do random samples.

For example, the NFL doesn’t test every athlete for PED’s.

Anyone take Statistics? 🙄

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Alyosha's avatar

Hi Sven... Actually you do not do random samples with gold bars worth $1.2 miilion per bar. You must check each one. Imagine the Metropolitan Museum of NY accepting a thousand important paintings from another important museum and doing "random" testing...

There simple are protocols to test from bar stamped weight matching,,, to flourescent X rays... to various levels of destruction using more authoritative tests.

many of the bars have been in the custody of the treasury for 100 years (or longer 50,000 estimated before 1900), from many from different countries and acquired by just as many circumstances: collateral during war, trade payments, melted coins during the 30s...Very few bars have left the Treasury or been deposited since 1971... the first step is to collect all the provenance data, sort it out and and get in there and start counting the bars making visual assessments.

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Paul E's avatar

This was super interesting and very timely! Thanks Maggie!

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Alyosha's avatar

Hi Sven... Actually you do not do random samples with gold bars worth $1.2 miilion per bar. You must check each one. Imagine the Metropolitan Museum of NY accepting a thousand important paintings from another important museum and doing "random" testing...

There simple are protocols to test from bar stamped weight matching,,, to flourescent X rays... to various levels of destruction using more authoritative tests.

many of the bars have been in the custody of the treasury for 100 years (or longer 50,000 estimated before 1900), from many from different countries and acquired by just as many circumstances: collateral during war, trade payments, melted coins during the 30s...Very few bars have left the Treasury or been deposited since 1971... the first step is to collect all the provenance data, sort it out and and get in there and start counting the bars making visual assessments.

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Sven Juis's avatar

Appreciate the insight. Thank you for the reply.

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Brian Clavin's avatar

Great Work Maggie. And JJ is a true gem. Hopefully not the last of a dying breed. Let’s believe and pray that JJ can inspire the next generation(s) to do the hard work and then share his experiences. No AI BS.

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MountainBlues's avatar

Educational interview. However I for one don't think we'll be heading for a golden age like he mentioned. Tim Morgan explains part of why not. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/300-revolutionary-times/

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Alyosha's avatar

Going to go where no man has gone before, Mr. Spock…

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