Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
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Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#2https://archive.is/20250623093918/https://www.ft.com/content...
I have doubts the current US administration would let them without some sort of retaliation (e.g. more tariffs)
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#3Sounds like the start of the plot for a heist movie
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#4Sounds like the start of the plot for a heist movie
Or a deep sea diving movie
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#5https://archive.is/20250623093918/https://www.ft.com/content... I have doubts the current US administration would let them without some sort of retaliation (e.g. more tariffs)
If your friend goes to an ATM for $20 and their bank fines them with a large percentage fee on their income; are you likely to also choose this bank?
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#6Question, how do you test if a bar of gold is really 100% gold without deforming it?
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#7I have no idea of the strategy behind it, but for some reasons italy has a lot of gold despite not buying it since a few decades https://www.bancaditalia.it/compiti/riserve-portafoglio-risc...
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#8Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#9Question, how do you test if a bar of gold is really 100% gold without deforming it?
The cheap approach is to check the density - weigh it and measure the volume. But I don't see what the issue would be with melting the gold down to check. There isn't that much of it.
Re: Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
#10Trump administration should call in ex AOL execs for some consulting work.