
Detroit police inspecting a clandestine underground brewery during Prohibition.

*In 2012, the Bundesbank (the central bank of Germany) asked to visit the vault of theFederal Reserve in New York, to view the 1,536 tons of gold they have stored there.*The Federal Reserve told them no. They were not allowed to see their gold.*In response, Germany said that they wanted 300 tons of their gold back.*The Federal Reserve said that they’d need seven years to get the gold back to Germany. (Something that should take them seven weeks, tops.)*One year later, the Fed has returned only 5 tons of gold to Germany. At this rate, it will take 60 years for the Germans to get less than one fifth of their gold back.

