by Daniel Terdiman
When my friend told me he thought there was a chance he could help me get to see the largest deposit of gold on the planet, you might say I was a little excited.
It's not that I hadn't seen the visceral representation of massive wealth up close and personal, and even recently. After all, only last month, I got a behind-the-scenes tour of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing's production line of the brand-new, next-generation $100 bills, and found myself staring at $38.4 million in cash.
And not long after that, I was at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia watching coins get made and was standing in front of $250,000 worth of shiny new quarters.
But the biggest collection of gold on Earth? Oh, yeah, I was going.
Unfortunately, this was all happening on my Road Trip 2010 swing through the Big Apple, and I was trying to arrange it on the shortest of notice. And, it turns out that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York--where the gold is held--doesn't allow anyone, including press, to photograph the massive stores of bullion. So, in the end, I didn't get a chance to see more gold than is held even at the U.S. Bullion Depository, otherwise known as Fort Knox.
Read the rest here.
If the Fed doesn't have the gold you'd have to believe this would be something of an "open secret" amongst the international CBer/financial elite crowd.
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