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Gold At $155,000 An Ounce
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
The fellas over at Zero Hedge put up a Tweet last week that floated a wild monetary thought experiment: they said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could theoretically "buy back" our roughly $40 trillion in U.S. government debt using cash from the Treasury General Account.
There would just be one small detail standing in the way…the government would first have to re-mark its gold reserves to somewhere around $155,000 per ounce.
If you're not familiar with the concept, it probably sounds outright insane. But the basic idea is actually simple, and once you follow it through to its logical conclusion, things get interesting pretty quickly.