Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 120: Fort Knox, Fake Gold, and the Great Financial Deception

Jon Herold and Zak Paine dig into the mystery of Fort Knox and the decades-old question: is there actually any gold left? With Elon Musk and Rand Paul calling for an audit, and London suddenly shipping billions in gold bars to the U.S., speculation is hitting a fever pitch. Why is gold being moved? Who really owns it? And why hasn’t the U.S. conducted a full audit of Fort Knox in over 50 years?

The guys break down the bizarre history of missing gold, from the 1974 Fort Knox “audit” that barely scratched the surface to the Clinton-era tungsten scam that left China furious after they discovered fake gold bars in their shipment. And if that wasn’t wild enough, they take a hard look at 9/11 and the missing billions in gold bars supposedly buried under the World Trade Center.

With global markets shifting, financial elites scrambling, and Trump playing 5D chess with tariffs and trade, this episode raises the question: is the biggest economic bombshell still ahead?