Hans, on US holding of gold, I think they do not have the 8,000 tons. I tink they have had so many sneaky wasy to lease it out to have people suppress gold, that when push comes to shove, they may have half of that. And they have an obscene amount of leverage in their financial system, into the tens of trillions. All backed by nothing, unless you count their gold and included the 95% pure gold from the seizure of gold coins.

the crooks who run the US now will find ways to get the gold into private/corporate/cartel hands, and leave the cubpoard bare.

GS