Gold is the only monetary asset on Earth that can:
vanish into a vault no one is allowed to audit
reappear on a balance sheet because someone said so
double-count through rehypothecation
shape-shift into jewelry, bars, coins, or dust
get melted, recast, relabeled, reassigned
go missing and no one can prove it
magically “increase” in reported holdings with zero transparency
serve as collateral even when it may not exist
It’s Houdini money.
Imagine running a global economy on something that can literally disappear without evidence and then reappear through paperwork.