The US Has Over $1 Trillion in Gold. Washington Carries It on the Books at $11 Billion.

The US government holds more gold than any entity on earth. At market prices, that stockpile is worth over $1 trillion. On the government’s books, it is worth $11 billion. The gap between those two figures is not an accounting error — it is what happens when a monetary system abandons hard money and never updates its own math.
