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The transfer was carried out partially by buying and selling and partly by physically transferring gold, the Dutch national bank said.
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IT would’ve made more sense to move to Canada… or the Netherlands.
Just as it probably made sense to flee Nazi Germany into Austria
Why would Canada be any better? It only seems like a decent country because of their Southern Neighbor.
Of all the english-speaking countries it’s the least worse imo.
We all have opinions, but there’s all not good or correct.
I can’t even comprehend why anyone even wants to “secure” something in the USA…
Other than the biggest military in the world? I agree.
I’m genuinely surprised we coughed it up. A similar request by Germany took years to fulfill.
That’s just about 1/3rd of the gold the Dutch have left in the US.
Everyone likes to blame the orange turd, the Dutch started removing gold from the US prior to the orange turd and moved 122 tons in 2014. The administration at the time denied the Dutch from taking back more gold.
Germany should do the same.
Take me with
smart.
Lol, they’re scared it won’t be there later if Trump gets desperate.
Desperate or vindictive. There was a recent debate over whether the EU should use the money in the Russian accounts it suspended to bankroll Ukraine, because Russia owes Ukraine reparations. One of the reasons that might not be a good idea is that a lot of EU money is in the USA, and with Trump it’s monkey see, monkey do. Except for “the EU should” read “the USA should”, for “Russian accounts” read “EU accounts”, for “bankroll Ukraine” read “line Trump’s pockets”, and for “because Russia owes Ukraine reparations” read “because Trump likes money”.
Smart move.
As an aside, this does not bode well for us hanging onto the dollar as the world reserve currency through 2028 and beyond.
What about the 122 tons of gold the Dutch moved in 2014?
Or is this just news because of politics?
Trump doesn’t WANT the dollar to be a reserve currency. Not exactly, anyway.
It is my firm belief that the only reason a President would want that — would be that he actually was trying to destroy the country, not just on accident through incompetence, but deliberately through malice or undisclosed foreign pressures/influences…
Which is the pinnacle of treason, by the way.
As an American, I always thought winning would look different.
If you are above the 1% in wealth in the US, these are the best times for you in American history. Measurably much better than the gilded age.
We’re almost coming to parity with medieval pre revolution France.
- A wildly unequal treatment by the justice system
- The will of the public is not represented in what government does.
- Massive national (public) debt
- Disconnected leaders vs frustrated starving peasants who feel they have no future.
- Profligate royal spending
- A huge wealth gap across society
- Increasingly poor treatment of the peasantry by the wealthy driving a breakdown of societal trust
- regressive Taxation focussed on lower class paying for everything
- Useless foreign wars that serve no national interest.
Its all pretty much spot on. All we lack is someone with the formal title “king”, a few droughts and extreme weather, and a run of bankruptcies and we are all the way there, or even past the french situation.
All we lack is someone with the formal title “king”, a few droughts and extreme weather,
Don’t worry
and
are you tired of the winning yet?
OPEN UP AND ACCEPT YOUR WINNING!
I hope they tested the gold bars for e.g. tungsten rods.
And i hope our national bank gets smart enough to follow that move.
Here are your 50 tons of depleted uranium bars.
They do have a nice and close weight, but their radioactivity gives them away.
Tungsten has a density of 19.25g/cm3. Compared to Gold with 19.32g/cm3, they are rather close. Uranium is a little less dense at 19.16g/cm3.
idk, i’d rather have the tungsten than the gold
WTF! We can do that? Just post gifs on the internet?!
No but seriously how did you do that? Did you upload a .gif as an image? This will open up an ocean of… Good use for me!
Bear in mind though, that your instance (in your case, lemmy.world) will bear the cost of storing your .gif, and lemmy.world doesn’t have ad revenue to pay for that like Reddit does. So use .gifs sparingly.
there should be a button to view the source of my comments, but basically:
for those of y'all who would like to skip the tutorial, skip it
if you include the ! it renders the image or gif (the link needs to be a direct path to the image, not just the page it’s on. it might take a little experimenting. it did for me) and if you don’t it just has the text and a link to the image.
without the !
first image: I NEED TUNGSTEN TO LIVE
with the !
i have been told if we add “hovertext” after the link (but still in the parens) we can add hovertext, but i haven’t experimented with nor figured it out yet so i can’t really advise you on it, sorry. there’s always bigger fish.
Fuck it, this is too modern for me.
D’oh!
“Shit. That gold was earmarked for the ballroom plumbing! We can never have a nice ballroom now!” /s
Good move, I wouldn’t be surprised if the tangerine douchebag is using gold from the vault to play Scrooge Mcduck.
I wish he did. Let him dive from a high board onto a pile of gold coins. It would be like diving onto concrete. No way he’d survive.
"People say I dive like no one has dived in the history of diving. Right into a tremendous pile of golden…👐gold. I’ll be surrounded by the gold. Amazing if I say so myself. It’s like a bath. A large gigantic bath of gold.
A golden shower is what I’m getting at. 👐"
We’re not lucky enough
You flipped his initials - TD
As a Canadian I cant help but interpret this as nothing against Canada, but insecurity about our increasingly belligerent neighbour.
We’re afraid the US might attack Canada and then Canada conquers our gold and keeps it as spoils of war. Not that you don’t deserve it, but better it be someone else’s gold.
Idk if we could pull of anything other then a repel, if anything we’d encourage a splitting of the the USA, it’s clear a certain half of the country can’t be trusted and should never have been let back in without letting them fail on their own first.
You’ve burned down the White House before. I have faith in you.
I think we’d wanna go after maralogo first but that’s far away.
The Dutch love Canadians, don’t worry,
Tulips
Tulips that meet as one
That is basically it yeah. The vast majority of gold was moved from the US (essentially 41% of Dutch gold reserves in the US were moved out), while we barely moved anything out of Canada.
The official reason is “crisis preparedness”, but I believe the actual unofficial and unspoken reason is that the US is simply too unreliable to store our gold.
The UK famously stole Venezuela’s gold, so I wouldn’t trust them much more…
But isn’t that exactly being prepared for the crisis?
Yes. Crisis preparedness is just polite talk for “we expect shit to hit the fan, so we are acting on it”.
IMO, it’s way worse than just claiming the US is unreliable.
The US has been unreliable for the entirety of its history. They relate to both world wars, and they’ve equipped numerous would be terrorists and dictators in various banana republics.
Also they play Baseball which everybody knows is just Rounders which they renamed
and have you listened to that jazz “music”? polyrhythmic nonsense!
I think the implication is that the crisis could be anything and not to the result of any particular specific concern.
Where as everybody knows that it’s because Trump is going to try and become a dictator in November when he inevitably will have a tantrum about losing the midterms.
I’m already relieved it was still there. But it is likely not the same gold that we put there - there recently was a story about that.
The first ones to run the bank are the ones who get their gold, right?
No, they get a gold painted commemorative coin for their donation.
This is what it is
