Gold - as a final store of value or for the commercial/industrial value and natural properties of AU ?
https://bcsecuritiescommissionasham.blogspot.com/2017/01/911-funding-bronfman-family-barrick.html?m=0
(Excerpt from Light In A Dark Place, 2nd ed. 2012)
With the rise of central banking, gold as money began a three century decline. Gold as power, however, continued on as usual.
In 1971, when the US cut the ties between money and gold, gold as money ceased to exist. Gold as power, however, continued. But because gold is power there is little real information on the connection between the two; and that information is often misleading as the powerful prefer secrecy and the true movements of gold are no exception.
On August 22, 1999, an article in the New York Times, Russian Money-Laundering Investigation finds a Familiar Swiss Banker in the Middle, focused on Russian money-laundering being carried out at Rappaport's bank, the Bank of New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/world/russian-money-laundering-investigation-finds-familiar-swiss-banker-middle.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
The New York Times article on Bruce Rappaport, i.e. the familiar Swiss banker and his bank, the Bank of New York, did not, however, mention Rappaports close ties to Israel, the Reagan administration and to US intelligence.
Regarding these omissions by the New York Times, Robert Parry wrote: the article sketched Rappaport's biography from his birth in Haifa, now part of Israel, through his founding of Inter-Maritime Bank in Geneva to his acquisition of the Bank of New York
But left out was an important piece of the mystery: Rappaport's close relationship to Israel's Labor Party, the Reagan administration and U.S. intelligence Rappaport had been linked to some of the Reagan administration's most controversial actions These included: the Iran-contra affair; an Israeli bribery case that involved a U.S.-backed oil pipeline in Iraq; the scandal over the Bank of Credit and Commerce International; a curious shipment of weapons through a melon farm in Antigua to Colombian cocaine kingpins; and the October Surprise mystery, the allegations that the 1980 Reagan campaign sabotaged Carter's negotiations to free 52 American hostages held in Iran.http://members.fortunecity.com/editor_oj/Special_Reports/RussianMoney/russianmoney.html
On September 24, 2011, the name, Bruce Rappaport, was mentioned on the website Veterans Today. Bruce Rappaport and Lee Wanta, a former US intelligence operative, who, like Rappaport, was involved with Reagans illegal Iran-contra activities, had also been active in US covert efforts to destabilize the Russian economy.
Wantas story along with Bruce Rappaports offers a telling glimpse into the secretive world of power, politics, money and gold. The story in Veterans Today, titled Classified: The Wanta Chronicles, the Covert Economic War connects Lee Wanta and Bruce Rappaport to:
.. a vast international criminal conspiracy at the heart of the American government … [beginning] with the criminal prosecution of former Reagan intelligence coordinator, Lee Wanta Charges allege that the 9/11 attacks were planned and executed in order to cover financial crimes.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/24/classified-the-wanta-chronicles-the-covert-economic-war/
The financial crimes and events that revolved around US efforts to destabilize the Russian ruble are myriad and complex; and include far more than the activities of Rappaport and Wanta.
They not only explain the events surrounding 9/11, they also reveal the source of funding for Americas covert activities after WWII, thousands of tons of gold stolen from China by the Japanese and later, again restolen by the US.