The New York Fed’s Florentine Palazzo

Originally posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 The largest concentration of monetary gold in the world is not at Fort Knox or West Point. It’s in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at 33 Liberty Street in Manhattan. Courtesy of the Federal...

Zeus and Gold

Originally posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 From The Iliad, Book 8, Zeus’s chariot is described as being drawn by a horse with “flowing manes of gold,” himself clad in gold, holding a gold whip, and meting out the fate of nations upon a set of...

Germany Brings Home Its Gold

Originally posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Share A “world historical” move? As The GATA Dispatch reports: “Lauren Lyster today interviewed fund manager and “Currency Wars” author James G. Rickards about the Bundesbank’s attempt...

The Ark of the Covenant

Originally posted on Thursday, February 07, 2013 Share “And he made the mercy seat of pure gold….” The Ark of the Covenant, saith the Wikipedia: “… also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in the Book of Exodus[1] as...

11 inch “Footlong” Sub Torpedoed

Originally posted on Thursday, January 31, 2013 Share CBS News recently reported that almost 100,000 people recently “Liked” a photograph posted to Subway’s Facebook fan page (comprising almost 20 million hungry Likers) showing one of its vaunted...