The news today is that the incoming Trump administration is hearing talk about selling the gold at Fort Knox. Our advice is to get on the phone right now and call Edwin Vieira, Jr., author of the definitive volume “Pieces of Eight.” That’s what we did last time we heard talk — it was in Congress — about selling the gold at Fort Knox. When he came to the phone we asked him, “Ed, do you think America should sell the gold in Fort Knox?”