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If that happens, risk assets will explode.
Let me explain how👇
The US Treasury owns about 261.5 million ounces of gold. But on official books, that gold is still valued at $42.22 per ounce, a price set in 1973.
On paper, this makes US gold reserves look worth only $11 billion.
In reality, gold is trading near $4,500 per ounce today. At current market prices, the same gold is worth over $1.17 trillion.
That is a hidden gap of more than $1 trillion sitting quietly on the US balance sheet.
This is basic math.
Why does this exist?
When the US left the gold standard in the early 1970s, the official gold price was frozen. Congress never updated it.
Most other countries value gold at market price.
The US does not.
That means the US is holding a massive unrealized gain that does not show up in headlines.
Why does this matter now?
US debt is over $37 trillion. Interest costs are exploding. Deficits are structural, not temporary.
At the same time, the US government is running out of easy tools.
- Raising taxes is politically not possible.
- Cutting spending is unrealistic.
- Issuing more debt pushes yields higher.
This is why the hidden gold value becomes important.
If the US ever decides to revalue its gold closer to market price, that $1+ trillion gap can be used to strengthen the Treasury balance sheet without issuing new debt.
This has happened before.
In 1972, the US revalued gold slightly and injected money directly into the system through the Treasury account.
Today, the scale would be much larger.
At current prices near $4,500/oz, revaluing gold would instantly add over $1 trillion of usable balance sheet capacity.
That would act like stealth liquidity entering the system.
What would the market impact be?
First, it would be an admission that the dollar has lost purchasing power.
That alone is bullish for hard assets.
Gold would move first, because it is directly repriced.
Risk assets will follow.
More balance sheet room means more spending flexibility. More liquidity means higher asset prices over time.
Bitcoin benefits the most from this logic.
Gold revaluation tells the world one thing very clearly:
- Fiat currencies are being managed, not preserved.
- Bitcoin is the only major asset that sits outside that system.
That is why gold usually moves first.
Bitcoin follows once the signal becomes obvious.
The US is sitting on a $1 trillion+ hidden asset created by outdated accounting.
If this lever is ever pulled, it would quietly inject liquidity, weaken the dollar in real time and push hard assets higher