it has reserves tho
and gold and other precious metals
thats your gold. and they print money using the gold principally for you as well, even though that has not been done correctly in the past.
guess not direct ownership then but some form of reserve which functions as a tool that allows them to print money
yes.. it can be manipulated since we never saw the physical storage of those gold holdings. anyways let them play their game im sure someday in the near future they will get audited and we will find out for sure then.
ive come across this sort of stuff before but thought that this is not yet the complete story but only offers a guidance / direction for searching for the truth