absolutely obsessed with this book on secret gold stashes https://i.imgur.com/MGV6Cr1.jpg

⚡️ dev, anarchist, ranconteur, writer

really interesting to think about how a black hole of infinite gold in the hands of the cia/disaffected cia ops would leave a misshapen imprint on intl politics for 80y

like, nixon gave one of the big funds back to the right wing Japanese LDP party while VP, in exchange for monetary help with being elected president https://i.imgur.com/2LjM4pa.jpg

better to have congress in charge of the inflating than be vulnerable to any rogue gold holder doing the inflating

he was also the guy who removed America from the gold standard 13y later, really makes me wonder if one motivation for that was knowledge of how much gold there was floating out there; removing the peg became a matter of national security to prevent another nation from flooding the gold market