Government Gold Control
Sep 8th, 2008 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Gold
It seems an odd quirk of history that Washington’s post-War obsession with its nationalized gold reserves — an obsession which Ian Fleming neatly tapped into with Goldfinger in 1959 — came so long after what historians call the “classical” Gold Standard ended.
Indeed, central bank gold reserves worldwide rose almost five-fold ...read more
