Hmm - more gold in NY than at Fort Knox?

SUBMAN1 · 08-19-08, 03:06 PM

Underneath the Federal Reserve, there is more gold than at any other place in the world. Had no idea about that.

-S

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Currently, it is reputedly the largest gold repository in the world (though this cannot be confirmed as Swiss Banks do not report their gold stocks) and holds approximately 5,000 metric tons of gold bullion ($160 billion as of March, 2008), more than Fort Knox.

SUBMAN1 · 08-19-08, 03:07 PM

Another thing I found intereting - the Federal Reserve has a room that $2.1 Trillion moves through daily! Whoaa!

-S

Jimbuna · 08-19-08, 03:31 PM

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Another thing I found intereting - the Federal Reserve has a room that $2.1 Trillion moves through daily! Whoaa!

-S

Yeah...I keep all my savings there :p

Sailor Steve · 08-19-08, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Another thing I found intereting - the Federal Reserve has a room that $2.1 Trillion moves through daily! Whoaa!

-S

Yeah...I keep all my savings there :p

No wonder you want to take the country back.:p

Jimbuna · 08-20-08, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Another thing I found intereting - the Federal Reserve has a room that $2.1 Trillion moves through daily! Whoaa!

-S

Yeah...I keep all my savings there :p

No wonder you want to take the country back.:p

We can't afford to look after our own country nevermind anyone elses

danlisa · 08-20-08, 04:43 AM

Bah, this I knew.

Die Hard told me.

Sailor Steve · 08-20-08, 11:52 AM

I can never think of Fort Knox without remembering the hero it was named for. He did the impossible, transporting fifty cannon on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, a three-hundred-mile journey that took fifty-six days. Knox was made General of Artillery, and when Washington was President Knox was the first Secretary of War (today's Secretary of Defense).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/knox.html

And that journey was accomplished by a guy who weight three hundred pounds!
http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/knox.html

August · 08-20-08, 12:36 PM

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I can never think of Fort Knox without remembering the hero it was named for. He did the impossible, transporting fifty cannon on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, a three-hundred-mile journey that took fifty-six days. Knox was made General of Artillery, and when Washington was President Knox was the first Secretary of War (today's Secretary of Defense).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/knox.html

And that journey was accomplished by a guy who weight three hundred pounds!
http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/knox.html

And without any prior military experience either.

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I can never think of Fort Knox without remembering the hero it was named for. He did the impossible, transporting fifty cannon on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, a three-hundred-mile journey that took fifty-six days. Knox was made General of Artillery, and when Washington was President Knox was the first Secretary of War (today's Secretary of Defense). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Knox http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/knox.html And that journey was accomplished by a guy who weight three hundred pounds! http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/knox.html __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo