Fort Knox has never actually been audited by an independent party — the last full physical verification of the gold reserve was in 1953, under Eisenhower. Cook Islands has built a minor cottage industry around that ambiguity, issuing collector pieces tied to American financial mythology that sell precisely because the underlying mystery is unresolved.
Fort Knox has never actually been audited by an independent party — the last full physical verification of the gold reserve was in 1953, under Eisenhower. Cook Islands has built a minor cottage industry around that ambiguity, issuing collector pieces tied to American financial mythology that sell precisely because the underlying mystery is unresolved.