The Coming Raid on Fort Knox

Talk is starting in the new administration about selling the gold in America’s vaults.

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The gold depository at Fort Knox in Kentucky, seen in 1974. AP

The news today is that the incoming Trump administration is hearing talk about selling the gold at Fort Knox. Our advice is to get on the phone right now and call Edwin Vieira, Jr., author of the definitive volume “Pieces of Eight.” That’s what we did last time we heard talk — it was in Congress — about selling the gold at Fort Knox. When he came to the phone we asked him, “Ed, do you think America should sell the gold in Fort Knox?”

“Don’t use the word SELL,” Mr. Vieira exploded over the blower. 

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