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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 months ago

Germany may look to withdraw its gold from US

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Germany may look to withdraw its gold from US

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 months ago
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Germany has some 1,200 tonnes, or about a third of its gold stored in the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve in Manhattan.
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      Germany has withdrawn 674 metric Tons from america. Half of germans Gold is in germany 36% is still in the US, the rest in UK.

      Germany has melted about 55 tons from New York to test its purity.

      https://www.degussa-goldhandel.de/ruecktransport-der-goldreserven-die-haelfte-des-deutschen-staatsgoldes-ist-zurueck-in-frankfurt/

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    Let’s see if it’s still there

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      It’s still there … it’s not hard to paint iron bars a shiny gold colour

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        That’s why they melt it down. If it’s pure they can just re-cast them.

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    Probably a safe bet. Better get it before Trump raids the coffers and presses it into express lane passes for his eponymous golf and country club wing of the White House with his fucking face on them.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      the covfefers*

      • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Bless u

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    Ha. Y’all think it is actually there?

    There is a reason trump kept talking about wanting to go to fort knox to make sure the gold was still there. ANYTHING a fascist says is projection.

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    What would actually happen if it wasn’t there anymore?

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      America as a nation would plummet in international relations, politics, trust, banking, markets and consequently in business, trade and economic value like nothing you have seen before. Everything from America would be dirt cheap globally because nobody would want it. Everything inside America would be catastrophically more expensive because the American dollar can no longer buy shit. Germany and everybody else would want their gold or corresponding amount of money but America would be so much in the red by now that even the one percent would experience the ramifications.

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        So, a typical Monday?

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        Thanks for the explanation, let’s see how this plays out

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    Trump may echo Nixon, iirc, breaking trust in such systems. Anybody know, can he try to stop them withdrawing? What about China, Japan, others …?

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    Fanciful to believe that the gold still exists much less someone handing it over. It’s gone, mang.

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    Why are they storing it there ? easier to sell it when need to ?

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      I’d expect it’s a Cold War thing. When Germany (or West Germany, at the time) was concerned that it could be the frontline of WW3 at any moment, it probably wanted somewhere to keep its gold reserves that wouldn’t be captured. The current German gold reserve is the second largest of any in the world, so on the assumption that at least most of that was from West Germany then it’d be a huge thing to capture in the event of war. If it could magically all be sold at the current London gold fix price, it’d be worth well over 300 billion USD

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    Just don’t ask us where it’s from…

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      Teeth and wedding bands?

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    Stocks, gold, bonds, library books, people - everything must be immediately divested or moved beyond the grasping hands of the Trump Regime, else they will be stolen or annihilated.

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    That’s a lot of toilets.

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    Why is it there to begin with?

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    Should’ve done it sooner

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    Need to dump US$ too.

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