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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I've seen alarmist TV shows making conspiracy theories that "Fort Knox is actually empty" . Would that even have any actual economic implications?
gpt
> Would that even have any actual economic implications?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: The US gold reserves (310 billion USD) are about 1.6% of GDP (19.4 trillion) and about 1.4% of total national debt (22.4 trillion). The gold reserves correspond to less than two weeks of the total economic output of the US, and about one month of the total yearly gov't revenue (3.6 trillion). If all of the gold reserves vanished overnight, the debt/GDP ratio would go up from 108.0% to 109.4%. Not a big deal.