David Bettencourt writes: CNBC’s Bob Pisani brings in the CNBC cameras for a look inside the gold vault of the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD). GLD is the largest exchange traded fund (ETF) in the world, backed by gold in a secret location in London. This is the largest private gold reserve in the world with more than 1,200 metric tons. The reserve is valued at more than $70 billion. Almost no one outside the World Gold Council has ever seen all the gold…until now.

Conspiracy theorists often maintain GLD is a total fraud that doesn’t actually own any physical gold, hopefully this will put those concerns to rest. Undoubtedly there will still be those that will be unwavered by the video claiming that even though the video shows lots of gold, there is no proof that all that gold is there. Even if Bob were to count all of the gold, theorists will still claim that the bars were not solid gold.

I guess the conspiracy theories will need to be tackled one theory at a time.

See the inside of this mysterious vault in the video below:

Related ETFs: SPDR Gold ETF (NYSE:GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDX), PowerShares DB Gold Double Short ETN (NYSE:DZZ), iShares COMEX Gold Trust (NYSE:IAU), iShares Silver ETF (NYSE:SLV).

David Bettencourt

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