That's as good as gold, sir. Those are I.O.U.s"
Posted on 01/08/2014 8:38:12 AM PST by dennisw
That's as good as gold, sir. Those are I.O.U.s"
Didn’t Angela Merkel fall down and hurt herself the other day?
“You mean to tell me the Americans spent our gold on fancy vacations with cheap floozies?”
“Well, it was billions so they weren’t CHEAP floozies. Oh. She passed out again.”
Strange indeed. The US Gold Depository policy is to keep track of bars individually, not by weight or count. Each bar is numbered and individually recorded.
So they should have had no problem giving Germany back the exact same gold. I guess they assumed nobody would come back asking for the bars...
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