America's Chief Leprechaun Ben Bernanke says,"Gold is gone!"

The wily and inscrutable head of the Federal Reserve Bank said yesterday under oath to congress that the United States gold supply is now completely gone. Even a politician knows that Leprechauns are notoriously devious and almost impossible to pin down on a subject so different Congressmen attempted to "trip him up a little" with questions repeated in a slightly different manner. All to no avail as the slippery official sidestepped each try to get at the truth of the matter. When they threatened "him with a little trip", he suddenly remembered that,"there was a pot of gold at Ft. Knox or maybe under the streets of Manhattan or was it in Delaware?" The nation's governing body returned from a dinner break only to realize that the Fed Chief had twinkled his nose,tugged his beard twice and disappeared right out from under them. A small pot was discovered later in the wardroom containing only IOUs from Goldman Sachs.