so this follows a interview that jim rickards gave to eric king at king world news and he was asked by eric king what would happen if the dollar collapsed and tim record says well it's ok because the u.s. could go on to a gold standard because they have eight thousand tons of gold but then listen to the rest of us what he says and in addition to that there is over six thousand. foreign official gold that stored in the united states but we could always convert if we wanted to do it but all the pros are back your you know states could just secure a military convoy move it to west point or something though secure us well cation of it just give it your c yeah well the key word there is convert well you have to explain this to us max because it's like one of these financial words perhaps like securitization a fancy word for something else perhaps stealing. yeah the germans have sixty six percent of their gold bullion held in new york and what jim records are saying. thing is that in the global currency war were gold ultimately becomes the winning currency the u.s. has the option simply to c