We’ve watched many of the Brad Meltzer Decoded shows on the History Channel and they’ve been fairly entertaining, if for no other reason than to watch Alex Jones canoeing down a river next to where the Bilderbergs were supposedly meeting (or something like that).
In fact, the one about the death of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark fame was excellent and contradicted much of what was in Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage. But, this show about the gold at Fort Knox just came off as being a little bit (some might say, very) hokey.
They ask some important questions and produce some interesting anecdotal accounts about whether there’s any gold there (such as a waitress who said her mother, while in the military and working at Fort Knox, told here there was none), but the collection of interview subjects kind of left me feeling like I should either put on my tin foil hat or change the channel.
Maybe if they had interviewed someone like Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer about the long term prospects of a fiat money system and the historical role of gold as money it would have come off as something other than just another conspiracy theory.
