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Fabio De Masi, a former Die Linke MEP who joined the leftwing populist BSW party, told the Financial Times that there were “strong arguments” for relocating more gold to Europe or Germany “in turbulent times”.
Germany and Italy hold the world’s second- and third-largest national gold reserves after the US, with reserves of 3,352 tonnes and 2,452 tonnes, respectively, according to World Gold Council data. Both rely heavily on the New York Federal Reserve in Manhattan as a custodian, each storing more than a third of their bullion in the US. Between them, the gold stored in the US has a market value of more than $245bn, according to FT calculations.
Can't think of any better timing for this when US might be involved in a long war with Iran. I think Europe tongue in check is trying to uphold that US strikes on Iran and tariff wars against EU were both unnecessary. What do you think of these developments? How much can these affect America? probably nothing
The last time a nation tried this, France lost it's gold and America ditched its gold standard. Obviously, France had long since lost its gold and America was not at all operating on a gold standard.
Like then, I'll wager that this is a political stunt to prove that America doesn't have the gold, which would damage the dollar and boost the Euro.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @spiderman 3h
I don't think presence or absence of the Gold has any impact on the dollar anymore. America will run deficit as long as it can, then it will choose one of
  1. Default
  2. Devaluation
  3. Default by devaluation but it will never sell the gold to cover any part of the cost.
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It's probably small, but there would be some trust lost in America's ability to maintain the dollar if it becomes known that there's less gold in reserve than claimed.
Otherwise, I totally agree.
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Trump is going to Fort Knox this time!
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Is he?
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Maybe it's better not to know.
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It seems like there are more pressing issues.
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Pressure only really comes into play if there's no gold to ship off to Germany and Italy, innit? What else could even be causing press?
utopia
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Not your vault, not your metal!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 5h
And....it's gone.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 8h
Thanks for sharing 👌
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