Is there any gold in Fort Knox?
Yes.
how do you know?
That’s not Fort Knox.
I’m sure there are people who think the bullion in Fort Knox has been replaced with gold-plated tungsten. Most amusing is that these are the very same people who prattle about government incompetence. How the incompetent government was able to ship the precious metal to the Illuminati’s secret vaults in Kenya(*) and keep it secret has never been explained.
Frankly, I wish the Treasury would open its vaults and sell its gold on the open market to drive the price down. Take that, you Bachmann-Beckist dupes!! 
(* - No, the secret Illuminati vaults aren’t really in Kenya. I’d tell you where they are, but I might then need to subject you to Satanic rituals.)
It’s also not a reputable source.
What difference does it make either way?
**Is there any gold in Fort Knox? **
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Need answer fast?
What the hell are guarding in there if it’s not gold?
The secret that there** is **no gold.
Duuuuuuhhhhhhh.
In that case, why not lie about not having far more gold than they claim to have?
17 dollars ain’t very gangsta, y’know?
The problem with providing reputable proof is… Oooh shiny!
Sounds like a job for Moist von Lipwig!
Isn’t this one of the conspiracy theories going around the Freemen of the Land-type loonies? That all the gold has actually been missing for (mumble mumble) years and therefore, because (mumble mumble) the government is no longer legitimate?
Right- and you can claim all that gold if you sign you tax bill a certain way.
At $1400 per ounce, the claimed amount of gold in Fort Knox is just over $200 Billion.
That’s a lot of money in absolute terms but not particularly a lot in relative terms. The budget for the Department of Defense is well over $600 Billion. And that’s just for one year.
Why would the government need to lie about what is basically a paltry sum? Sure, it’s technically possible, but what purpose is served?
If you asked, and I told you I had $10000 in a checking account, I might be lying but odds are pretty good you could accept that figure without an audit. If I claimed $1 million, that should raise eyebrows and require a bit more proof.
If you want to play the game of “how do we know for sure?”, well, we don’t. There’s no way to verify every single fact and figure without trusting somebody. If you don’t trust the government, you have to trust the person who performs the check.
I suppose you could go in yourself, but you have to trust that you are actually at Fort Knox and not at a mock Fort Conspiracy Theory the government set up? I’ve never been to Fort Knox. I only know the location because I trust Google or the map or whatever source I used.
Basically, at some point, we all have to believe that (a) humans are basically truthful about the majority of everyday facts and figure and (b) in order to function day to day we need to accept as true a vast amount of facts and figures we can’t personally verify. That’s not a 100% foolproof method but it’s close enough for government work (heh). The stuff that requires the most scrutiny is the stuff that makes the least sense when correlated with other facts and figures. If the amount in Fort Knox were $200 Trillion, sure, maybe we should be a bit more careful and sure. But $200 Billion? Why doubt it?
You were told it’s there by an anonymous person on the internet. Apparently that’s all the proof you need.