Selects: All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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When Fort Knox was built in the 1930s to house America’s gold supply, it was billed as an impenetrable, impregnable, don’t-even-think-of-trying vault. But as the world has moved further away from gold, the stockpile’s lost a bit of its luster. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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1:05.6	all the golden Fort Knox from November of 2020 one of the most surprising
1:10.0	things we learned to this episode isn't that there might not be any gold left in
1:13.8	Fort Knox there most likely is plenty in there but that because of the size of
1:18.1	our economy it doesn't really matter at this point if it's there or not.
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