again, at the time the movie was made this simply isn’t true.
Hugo Drax in “Moonraker” was the one who was cheating at cards (novel only). IIRC, Bond was hopped up on bennies when he took Drax down.
Goldfinger cheated as well. He had his mistress reading his opponent’s cards over his shoulder with binoculars from her room and telling Goldfinger what they were via an earplug. Bond figured it out, broke into the room, sassed Goldfinger over the earplug, and seduced the mistress.
Would the U.S. be able to tell it was a Chinese bomb?
The movie came out before China got the bomb, so it would have been difficult to compare it against anything 
Right, but that had nothing to do with M. In Moonraker (novel), M asked Bond for help to (a) determine if Drax really was cheating, and if so (b) let him know he’d been caught, in a way that wouldn’t publicly embarass and expose him as a cheater.
I am obviously confusing the two novels. 
Thinking back on it, old Auric cheated at cards AND golf, didn’t he? What a bounder!
Could you elaberate, please?
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How would the neutralisation of the U.S. Government’s gold supply impact it’s ability to raise revenue.
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Ditto U.S. Industrial manufacturing power.
I could see it effecting the “Fed”, and interest rates, so I’ll withdraw the statement pertaining to loans being created by the banking system.
Consumer spending could be impacted through a war scare, I guess, so I’ll wuthdraw that, too.
Or, perhaps, having spent the money to create a scale model of Fort Knox, he figured, “It would be a waste not to use it at least once.”
I know, but with such a disaster it is likely we’d have done what I said real quick - rather than have an economic meltdown. I believe it is commonly the case that gold is moved from one corner of a vault to another, if that.
The Russsians might have objected, but I don’t think they were well integrated into the world economic system back then.
BTW, even though I doubt the world financial markets would collapse, the price of gold would certainly go up from panic buying. So, Goldfinger would make money, in the short run. However, how did he plan to get away with it? Though they didn’t track markets back then as rigorously as they do now, they would be looking at people with huge gold stocks. He also did not exactly make himself inconspicuous. So, how and where would he spend his money? He might be safe in China, but back then that was hardly the fun spot of the globe. In a world of 00 agents, he’d have to watch his back pretty carefully.
To whom could one sell gold in those days? I gather you couldn’t own gold then except as jewelry if you were an American, but what about in other countries who used the gold standard? I guess as a refiner he would be allowed to buy and sell gold.
He probably figured the nuclear explosion would destroy a lot of evidence. And then he could claim innocence, “Me? I’m just a long established gold trader who happened to prosper from this terrible act of war. That doesn’t mean I caused it. How could I? It was obviously the Chinese who were responsible - it’s not like I have nuclear weapons - and now they’re trying to make me a scapegoat. Any evidence you have must have been planted by them.”
True, but in that same conversation is when Bond is briefed to investigate Goldfinger for smuggling. He’s been buying gold in England and transporting it to places where he can sell it at a higher price. Presumably, most of that money comes back to England to buy more gold, with enough left over to support his lifestyle. Remember when he’s describing gold to Bond, “I welcome any enterprise that will increase my stock…”
Anybody see “The Rundown”? They’re after a statue “El Gato” (sp?) about the size of a table lamp - and they wave it around like it was made of wood (which it probably was). I dobut they could easily lift a real one.
The weight of gold bars in Fort Knox even tripped up the otherwise foolproof plans of the mighty Brain.
A beautiful theory destroyed by an ugly fact.
Damn. Now I gotta watch 'em all again.
That’s the movie, and I agree, it’s pretty dumb. In the book, the one(s) who don’t want to participate in the plan are killed (Goldfinger reports to the others that the guy “fell down the stairs” and they’re all impressed, IIRC.) The others are participants in the plan – but, of course, the plan in the book is to actually steal the gold.