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    3 days ago

    It’s worse because as described in the largest comment in the thread the Federal Reserve is not the US government’s wallet. And there is no mechanism for them to “just sell gold”.

    It’s yet another thing that sounds vaguely feasible only if you know absolutely nothing about any of the systems in place.