March 21, 2025 • 12 mins
What if I told you the gold that backs America’s financial system—might not even exist? For decades, we’ve been told that Fort Knox holds $250 billion worth of gold—the backbone of U.S. credibility. But there’s one big problem… No one has actually seen that gold in over 50 years. The U.S. government refuses to audit it. They could shut down every conspiracy theory tomorrow—but they won’t. And the last time they let people inside? It was a staged PR stunt. No inventory. No weighing. No serial numbers checked. Just politicians posing with some gold bars for the cameras. So why won’t they just prove it’s there? And what happens if it’s NOT? And it gets worse—because even if the gold is there, it raises an even bigger question.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if I told you the gold that backs America's
financial system might not even exist. Now, for decades, we've
been told that Fort Knox holds two hundred and fifty
billion dollars worth of gold, which is the backbone of
US credibility. But here's one big problem. No one's actually
ever seen the gold in over fifty years. The US
government refuses to audit it. And you know, they could
(00:21):
shut down every conspiracy theory tomorrow, but they won't. And
the last time they let people inside it was a
stage pr stunt. No inventory, no waning, no serial numbers check,
just politicians posing for some gold bars for the camera.
So why won't they prove that it's there? And what
happens if it's not? And it gets worse because even
(00:43):
if the gold is there, it raises an even bigger question. Now,
real quick, I'm Mark Moss. I've built and exited multiple
tech companies, invested through several boom and bus cycles, and
today I'm a partner at leading bitcoin venture fund and
advisor to multiple public tech companies. Also write the Quantum
Wave Investment Report or help investors navigate the biggest shifts
in tech and money. Now I make these videos to
(01:04):
share the insights that we're using so you can profit
from these massive shifts before the rest of the world
wakes up. And in this video, we're gonna go deep.
We're gonna break down why Fort Knox hasn't been audited
in half a century. We're gonna look at the real
reasons why the government refuses to open the vault, and
most importantly, what this means for your money and how
you can protect yourself before it's too late. Because if
(01:26):
history tells us anything, it's that when governments hide the truth,
that people always pay the price. So let's go Fort Knox.
It's supposed to be the most secure vault on earth,
holding over four five hundred and eighty metric tons of
gold worth over two hundred and fifty billion. But here's
(01:47):
the question, why hasn't anyone verified that gold in over
fifty years? Now? The lost audit wasn't an audit at all.
It was a pr stunt in nineteen seventy four the
US Treasury. They brought in a hand pick group of
politicians and journalists and they led them through a single vault.
They took some pictures, they looked at some gold, but
there's no inventory check. There was no wane, there was
(02:09):
no purity testing. I mean they weren't even allowed to
verify if those bars were actually even owned by the
US government. And since then nothing, no audits, no independent verification,
just vault seal checks, which means some government bureaucrat looks
at the door and confirms it's still locked. And that's it.
(02:29):
And here's where it gets even worse. Seven of those
reports are missing. So let's get this straight. The gold
allegedly exists, the government refuses to verify it. The official
records are incomplete. So let's put this into perspective. I mean,
the US government releases data on everything, right. We know
how much debt they take on, we know how much
(02:52):
they spend, we know where tax revenue comes from. But
when it comes to verifying the physical gold that supposedly
backs the US reserves nothing. Now, at any Wall Street
firm a mistake like this, it would get people fired, investigated,
possibly even put into jail. But when it's the US Treasury,
no worries business as usual. Now, the obvious question is,
(03:15):
if the goal is really there, why not prove it? Right?
The government could shut down every conspiracy theory overnight but
for fifty years they haven't. And so the only answer
that we've gotten is some variation of trust me bro.
And as we all know, when someone in power tells
you to just trust them, it usually means that you shouldn't.
Now that's exactly why calls for an audit are getting
(03:37):
louder and louder. And this time it's different because for
decades past administration's ignored it. But now with Trump, and
now with Elon Musk and Dodgs already auditing the government
books all over the place, Fort Knox audit is suddenly
back on the table. Now, if anyone could actually push
for a Fort Knox audit, it probably would be the
Trump administration, backed by outsiders like Scott Descent and yes,
(04:00):
Elon Musk. So let's break it down. Scott Bissent, he's
Trump's new economic advisor. He ran a twenty billion dollar
hedge fund. It was the chief investment officer for George Soros.
That means he spent decades inside global financial war rooms
where every single number gets scrutinized. You think a guy
like that wouldn't want to know if America's actually got
the real gold. And then there's Elon Musk. Mus has
(04:21):
already called out the lack of transparency in Fort Knox.
When the topic of an audit went viral on X,
Musk replied, quote, surely it's reviewed at least once every year. No,
and that's Elon Musk. He's one of the richest men
on the planet, assuming that Fort Knox's checked annually, only
to find out that government hasn't done a real audit
since before he was born. And finally there's Trump. Now,
(04:44):
if there's one thing Trump understands, it's optics. So pushing
for a Fort Knox audit isn't just about gold. It's
about exposing what past administration's ignored, what they covered up,
what they failed to investigate. Now, politically it's a perfect
populist move. You know they lied to you for fifty years.
All get to the truth. Now, The last major Fort
(05:05):
Knox audit happened under Nixon, right before the US abandoned
the gold standard in nineteen seventy one. Could that be
a coincidence? But here's the real question, would they actually
do it or is the truth too dangerous to reveal?
Because if the gold isn't there, or worse, if it's
been secretly sold or collateralized. We're talking about a scandal
that could shake global markets. And that's exactly why this
(05:26):
next part matters. You see, if Trump, the Cent and Musk,
if they actually pushed for the audit, could they get
it done? Maybe? But would they want to? That's actually
the real question, because an audit isn't just about proving
the gold is there. It's about what happens if it's not.
And here's the thing. An audit of Fort Knox could
be done. I don't know, probably a week. The US
(05:48):
government has spent over seven trillion dollars on wars in
the last two decades. But somehow we're supposed to believe
that auditing a pile of gold bars is too expensive. Now,
the truth is, there are some real reasons they want
audit for it, and some of them maybe are even
worse than any conspiracy theory. A small business owner, are
you buried in all types of work keeping you from
(06:09):
the real thing that makes you money? Well that's where
Just Works comes in. They're the all in one platform
that supports small business growth. You can get all their
tools that help with benefits like payroll and HR and
compliance with transparent pricing. Now they help you hire top
talent internationally, internew markets, quickly scale international operations without the workload,
(06:30):
and for every how do I do it? Question? You
can reach out to their expert staff from sole proprietor
or a team of twenty. Just Works empowers all kinds
of small businesses with real human support. So visit justworks
dot com slash podcast to join the thousands of small
businesses that trust Just Works to take care of payroll, benefits,
(06:50):
compliance and more. Again, that's Justworks dot Com slash podcasts.
Like for starters, the gold might be gone right, it
might be used for as collateral because we know that
the US has leased gold before. Now this isn't speculation,
it's documented. The gold Reserve active of nineteen thirty four
put the government in full control of the nation's gold,
(07:11):
and leasing agreements were later used to manipulate prices. So
unfamiliar now, The US Treasury claims two hundred and sixty
one million ounces of gold exist on paper, but never
discloses how much of that still physically exists inside Fort Knox. Now,
in twenty eleven, Germany requested to repatriate just three hundred
metric tons of its gold from the Federal Reserve and
(07:33):
it took seven years to deliver. That's seven years to
get their own gold out. Why Well, because central banks
around the world use gold as collateral for loans and
currency swaps. So if Fort Knox's gold has been leased,
it's been swapped, or it's been used as collateral, exposing
that could trigger a global crisis. Maybe another reason number
two the government fears setting a precedent. Now, if they
(07:57):
allow Fort Knox audit, then what's next the Federals serves
balance sheet. They would never want that. How about the
Pentagon's missing two point three trillion dollars, which, by the way,
coincidentally was announced missing by Donald Rumsfeld on September tenth,
two thousand and one, the day before nine to eleven. Now,
once people realize the US government has zero real oversight
(08:17):
over its most critical financial assets, the demand for transparency
won't stop. This is why even Trump st musk even
their administration they might even hesitate, because an audit could
open a Pandora's box on a scale that even they
can't control. Maybe another reason is everyone thinks Fort Knox
might be empty, but what if it's actually full. Now
(08:39):
everyone talks about the gold missing, But what if the
truth is even bigger? You see, in twenty eighteen, Russia
Central Bank added two hundred and seventy four point three
metric tons of gold, reaching approximately two one hundred and
thirteen tons. Meanwhile, China reported just ten metric tons. But
they've been the world's largest gold producer since two thousand
(08:59):
and seven, and annams believe that they hold significantly more
gold than is publicized or publicly disclosed. Some are saying
that they might have as much as thirty thousand tons.
And so if China under reports its true reserves, so
what if the US does the same right a full
Fortknox Audit could reveal hundreds of billions more than the
(09:20):
official numbers. But that's major geopolitical leverage they don't want
the world to know about because the dollars backed by
nothing but trust. So if the US suddenly admits to
hoarding hundreds of billions in gold, that could shift the
global markets overnight. So the bottom line is, if the
gold is missing, the US government is never going to
admit it. If there's more than expected, they won't relal
(09:41):
it either because it gives them strategic leverage. And if
the gold is just sitting there untouched, then an audit
would be the easiest thing in the world to prove. However,
like I said, there's actually maybe even more risk in
having the gold than if there's not. Now, I know
that sounds crazy. Now. Fort Knox is just one example
of how the US government operates in secrecy. In Tungstens another,
(10:02):
the US is dependent on China for critical medals for
its defense industry. And the scariest part, most people have
no idea how fragile the system really is. So now
let's go even deeper. Why won't they audit Fort Knox.
So let's break this down. The moment of a real
audit happening, the consequences are going to be massive, because
the gold either there or it's not right now, either way,
(10:23):
it changes everything because if the gold is missing, we're
talking about an unprecedented financial scandal. The US government claims
it holds two hundred and fifty one million ounces, and
if that's a lie, then the trust in the entire
system collapses overnight. The entire global monetary system is built
on trust, and a missing Fort Knox reserve would shatter that.
Foreign nations, investors, and even US citystems would lose confidence
(10:45):
in the US treasury. The dollars already facing devaluation, a
gold shortage would accelerate its decline. But again, it could
even be worse. If the gold is there, If they
hold more than was reported, it means the US is
hiding extra reserves for a geopolitic advantage, and that revelation
would show that, you know, we need to recalibrate all
(11:06):
the asset values. It would expose the gold manipulation schemes
of central banks. It would lead to lawsuits, would lead
to currency revaluations, policy shifts. So either way, the world
isn't ready for the truth, and that's why they won't
open the vault. If Fort Knox is empty, the US
economy is built on a lie. But here's the thing,
even if the gold is there, you still have a
(11:27):
bigger problem. You're trusting a system that hides its reserves,
It manipulates the data, refuses to be audited. And that
brings us to the final question, the one that makes
this whole mystery even crazier. What if bitcoin is the answer.
Bitcoin doesn't need an audit. Bitcoin is the audit. Every transaction,
every supply increase, every movement at Bitcoin. It's all on
(11:47):
the blockchain, visible to anybody at any time. Fort Knox,
no one's seen the gold in fifty years. Bitcoin, you
can very via the supply right now. So now you
have a choice. Keep trusting a system that refuses to
rub its reserves or move to one where verification happens
every ten minutes. Because here's the real takeaway. If your
wealth is tied to a system that requires trust, you've
(12:09):
already lost. For fifty years, the US government has refused
to audit Fort Knox. They tell you the gold is there,
but they won't prove it. No full inventory, no independent verification,
no transparency. But that's the pattern, isn't it the dollar
they print it whenever they want gold, they refuse to
show it. Bitcoin fully transparent, audible, and outside their control.
And that's why we're seeing the greatest shift in monetary history.
(12:32):
And governments still want you to trust them, but Bitcoin
says verify. So the real question is how much longer
are you willing to trust a system that refuses to
show its own reserves because the people running the system
they already know the answer. Let me know what you
think about this in the comments down below. Of course,
that's always give me thumbs up if you like it.
If you don't, thumbs down, that's okay. Tell me why
in the comments either, why and that's what I got,
(12:53):
all right, to your success, I'm out.
What if I told you the gold that backs America's
financial system might not even exist. Now, for decades, we've
been told that Fort Knox holds two hundred and fifty
billion dollars worth of gold, which is the backbone of
US credibility. But here's one big problem. No one's actually
ever seen the gold in over fifty years. The US
government refuses to audit it. And you know, they could
(00:21):
shut down every conspiracy theory tomorrow, but they won't. And
the last time they let people inside it was a
stage pr stunt. No inventory, no waning, no serial numbers check,
just politicians posing for some gold bars for the camera.
So why won't they prove that it's there? And what
happens if it's not? And it gets worse because even
(00:43):
if the gold is there, it raises an even bigger question. Now,
real quick, I'm Mark Moss. I've built and exited multiple
tech companies, invested through several boom and bus cycles, and
today I'm a partner at leading bitcoin venture fund and
advisor to multiple public tech companies. Also write the Quantum
Wave Investment Report or help investors navigate the biggest shifts
in tech and money. Now I make these videos to
(01:04):
share the insights that we're using so you can profit
from these massive shifts before the rest of the world
wakes up. And in this video, we're gonna go deep.
We're gonna break down why Fort Knox hasn't been audited
in half a century. We're gonna look at the real
reasons why the government refuses to open the vault, and
most importantly, what this means for your money and how
you can protect yourself before it's too late. Because if
(01:26):
history tells us anything, it's that when governments hide the truth,
that people always pay the price. So let's go Fort Knox.
It's supposed to be the most secure vault on earth,
holding over four five hundred and eighty metric tons of
gold worth over two hundred and fifty billion. But here's
(01:47):
the question, why hasn't anyone verified that gold in over
fifty years? Now? The lost audit wasn't an audit at all.
It was a pr stunt in nineteen seventy four the
US Treasury. They brought in a hand pick group of
politicians and journalists and they led them through a single vault.
They took some pictures, they looked at some gold, but
there's no inventory check. There was no wane, there was
(02:09):
no purity testing. I mean they weren't even allowed to
verify if those bars were actually even owned by the
US government. And since then nothing, no audits, no independent verification,
just vault seal checks, which means some government bureaucrat looks
at the door and confirms it's still locked. And that's it.
(02:29):
And here's where it gets even worse. Seven of those
reports are missing. So let's get this straight. The gold
allegedly exists, the government refuses to verify it. The official
records are incomplete. So let's put this into perspective. I mean,
the US government releases data on everything, right. We know
how much debt they take on, we know how much
(02:52):
they spend, we know where tax revenue comes from. But
when it comes to verifying the physical gold that supposedly
backs the US reserves nothing. Now, at any Wall Street
firm a mistake like this, it would get people fired, investigated,
possibly even put into jail. But when it's the US Treasury,
no worries business as usual. Now, the obvious question is,
(03:15):
if the goal is really there, why not prove it? Right?
The government could shut down every conspiracy theory overnight but
for fifty years they haven't. And so the only answer
that we've gotten is some variation of trust me bro.
And as we all know, when someone in power tells
you to just trust them, it usually means that you shouldn't.
Now that's exactly why calls for an audit are getting
(03:37):
louder and louder. And this time it's different because for
decades past administration's ignored it. But now with Trump, and
now with Elon Musk and Dodgs already auditing the government
books all over the place, Fort Knox audit is suddenly
back on the table. Now, if anyone could actually push
for a Fort Knox audit, it probably would be the
Trump administration, backed by outsiders like Scott Descent and yes,
(04:00):
Elon Musk. So let's break it down. Scott Bissent, he's
Trump's new economic advisor. He ran a twenty billion dollar
hedge fund. It was the chief investment officer for George Soros.
That means he spent decades inside global financial war rooms
where every single number gets scrutinized. You think a guy
like that wouldn't want to know if America's actually got
the real gold. And then there's Elon Musk. Mus has
(04:21):
already called out the lack of transparency in Fort Knox.
When the topic of an audit went viral on X,
Musk replied, quote, surely it's reviewed at least once every year. No,
and that's Elon Musk. He's one of the richest men
on the planet, assuming that Fort Knox's checked annually, only
to find out that government hasn't done a real audit
since before he was born. And finally there's Trump. Now,
(04:44):
if there's one thing Trump understands, it's optics. So pushing
for a Fort Knox audit isn't just about gold. It's
about exposing what past administration's ignored, what they covered up,
what they failed to investigate. Now, politically it's a perfect
populist move. You know they lied to you for fifty years.
All get to the truth. Now, The last major Fort
(05:05):
Knox audit happened under Nixon, right before the US abandoned
the gold standard in nineteen seventy one. Could that be
a coincidence? But here's the real question, would they actually
do it or is the truth too dangerous to reveal?
Because if the gold isn't there, or worse, if it's
been secretly sold or collateralized. We're talking about a scandal
that could shake global markets. And that's exactly why this
(05:26):
next part matters. You see, if Trump, the Cent and Musk,
if they actually pushed for the audit, could they get
it done? Maybe? But would they want to? That's actually
the real question, because an audit isn't just about proving
the gold is there. It's about what happens if it's not.
And here's the thing. An audit of Fort Knox could
be done. I don't know, probably a week. The US
(05:48):
government has spent over seven trillion dollars on wars in
the last two decades. But somehow we're supposed to believe
that auditing a pile of gold bars is too expensive. Now,
the truth is, there are some real reasons they want
audit for it, and some of them maybe are even
worse than any conspiracy theory. A small business owner, are
you buried in all types of work keeping you from
(06:09):
the real thing that makes you money? Well that's where
Just Works comes in. They're the all in one platform
that supports small business growth. You can get all their
tools that help with benefits like payroll and HR and
compliance with transparent pricing. Now they help you hire top
talent internationally, internew markets, quickly scale international operations without the workload,
(06:30):
and for every how do I do it? Question? You
can reach out to their expert staff from sole proprietor
or a team of twenty. Just Works empowers all kinds
of small businesses with real human support. So visit justworks
dot com slash podcast to join the thousands of small
businesses that trust Just Works to take care of payroll, benefits,
(06:50):
compliance and more. Again, that's Justworks dot Com slash podcasts.
Like for starters, the gold might be gone right, it
might be used for as collateral because we know that
the US has leased gold before. Now this isn't speculation,
it's documented. The gold Reserve active of nineteen thirty four
put the government in full control of the nation's gold,
(07:11):
and leasing agreements were later used to manipulate prices. So
unfamiliar now, The US Treasury claims two hundred and sixty
one million ounces of gold exist on paper, but never
discloses how much of that still physically exists inside Fort Knox. Now,
in twenty eleven, Germany requested to repatriate just three hundred
metric tons of its gold from the Federal Reserve and
(07:33):
it took seven years to deliver. That's seven years to
get their own gold out. Why Well, because central banks
around the world use gold as collateral for loans and
currency swaps. So if Fort Knox's gold has been leased,
it's been swapped, or it's been used as collateral, exposing
that could trigger a global crisis. Maybe another reason number
two the government fears setting a precedent. Now, if they
(07:57):
allow Fort Knox audit, then what's next the Federals serves
balance sheet. They would never want that. How about the
Pentagon's missing two point three trillion dollars, which, by the way,
coincidentally was announced missing by Donald Rumsfeld on September tenth,
two thousand and one, the day before nine to eleven. Now,
once people realize the US government has zero real oversight
(08:17):
over its most critical financial assets, the demand for transparency
won't stop. This is why even Trump st musk even
their administration they might even hesitate, because an audit could
open a Pandora's box on a scale that even they
can't control. Maybe another reason is everyone thinks Fort Knox
might be empty, but what if it's actually full. Now
(08:39):
everyone talks about the gold missing, But what if the
truth is even bigger? You see, in twenty eighteen, Russia
Central Bank added two hundred and seventy four point three
metric tons of gold, reaching approximately two one hundred and
thirteen tons. Meanwhile, China reported just ten metric tons. But
they've been the world's largest gold producer since two thousand
(08:59):
and seven, and annams believe that they hold significantly more
gold than is publicized or publicly disclosed. Some are saying
that they might have as much as thirty thousand tons.
And so if China under reports its true reserves, so
what if the US does the same right a full
Fortknox Audit could reveal hundreds of billions more than the
(09:20):
official numbers. But that's major geopolitical leverage they don't want
the world to know about because the dollars backed by
nothing but trust. So if the US suddenly admits to
hoarding hundreds of billions in gold, that could shift the
global markets overnight. So the bottom line is, if the
gold is missing, the US government is never going to
admit it. If there's more than expected, they won't relal
(09:41):
it either because it gives them strategic leverage. And if
the gold is just sitting there untouched, then an audit
would be the easiest thing in the world to prove. However,
like I said, there's actually maybe even more risk in
having the gold than if there's not. Now, I know
that sounds crazy. Now. Fort Knox is just one example
of how the US government operates in secrecy. In Tungstens another,
(10:02):
the US is dependent on China for critical medals for
its defense industry. And the scariest part, most people have
no idea how fragile the system really is. So now
let's go even deeper. Why won't they audit Fort Knox.
So let's break this down. The moment of a real
audit happening, the consequences are going to be massive, because
the gold either there or it's not right now, either way,
(10:23):
it changes everything because if the gold is missing, we're
talking about an unprecedented financial scandal. The US government claims
it holds two hundred and fifty one million ounces, and
if that's a lie, then the trust in the entire
system collapses overnight. The entire global monetary system is built
on trust, and a missing Fort Knox reserve would shatter that.
Foreign nations, investors, and even US citystems would lose confidence
(10:45):
in the US treasury. The dollars already facing devaluation, a
gold shortage would accelerate its decline. But again, it could
even be worse. If the gold is there, If they
hold more than was reported, it means the US is
hiding extra reserves for a geopolitic advantage, and that revelation
would show that, you know, we need to recalibrate all
(11:06):
the asset values. It would expose the gold manipulation schemes
of central banks. It would lead to lawsuits, would lead
to currency revaluations, policy shifts. So either way, the world
isn't ready for the truth, and that's why they won't
open the vault. If Fort Knox is empty, the US
economy is built on a lie. But here's the thing,
even if the gold is there, you still have a
(11:27):
bigger problem. You're trusting a system that hides its reserves,
It manipulates the data, refuses to be audited. And that
brings us to the final question, the one that makes
this whole mystery even crazier. What if bitcoin is the answer.
Bitcoin doesn't need an audit. Bitcoin is the audit. Every transaction,
every supply increase, every movement at Bitcoin. It's all on
(11:47):
the blockchain, visible to anybody at any time. Fort Knox,
no one's seen the gold in fifty years. Bitcoin, you
can very via the supply right now. So now you
have a choice. Keep trusting a system that refuses to
rub its reserves or move to one where verification happens
every ten minutes. Because here's the real takeaway. If your
wealth is tied to a system that requires trust, you've
(12:09):
already lost. For fifty years, the US government has refused
to audit Fort Knox. They tell you the gold is there,
but they won't prove it. No full inventory, no independent verification,
no transparency. But that's the pattern, isn't it the dollar
they print it whenever they want gold, they refuse to
show it. Bitcoin fully transparent, audible, and outside their control.
And that's why we're seeing the greatest shift in monetary history.
(12:32):
And governments still want you to trust them, but Bitcoin
says verify. So the real question is how much longer
are you willing to trust a system that refuses to
show its own reserves because the people running the system
they already know the answer. Let me know what you
think about this in the comments down below. Of course,
that's always give me thumbs up if you like it.
If you don't, thumbs down, that's okay. Tell me why
in the comments either, why and that's what I got,
(12:53):
all right, to your success, I'm out.
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Mark Moss
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