metamitya ·
What’s speculative or unproven in the post:
- That the U.S. government is deliberately “squeezing” gold shorts to revalue its official gold and then buy BTC. I don’t know of any official confirmation tying the Swiss tariff to that goal.
- That Treasury could simply mark its gold to market and spend the paper gains. By law, U.S. gold is recorded at $42.22/oz (31 USC §§5116–5117). Revaluing to market and turning the resulting “gain” into spendable cash would likely require congressional action/appropriation, not just an internal accounting change.
- A price target like $6,000/oz is conjecture. Tariffs can distort flows and widen spreads (London vs. New York), but a forced short squeeze to that level is a prediction, not evidence.