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Re: Plausibility of a villain's scheme
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Unlikely, as I don’t believe there’s very much gold in Fort Worth………
But if you are meaning Fort Knox, remember what Jeremy Irons in Die Hard 3 says after breaking into the US Federal Reserve in New York…….
“$140 billion! Ten times what's in Kentucky. Fort Knox? Ha! It's for tourists.”
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Currently, there are 73.65 million ounces of gold in Fort Worth.
https://www.usmint.gov/about/tours-a...%20Fort%20Knox.
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Amount of present gold holdings: 147.3 million ounces. About half of the Treasury’s stored gold (as well as valuables of other federal agencies) is kept at Fort Knox.
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At the current price of gold of $3,242.42 per ounce, that equates to approximately $238.8 billion…
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