Gold is another very manipulated trade.
yesterday in Bloomberg an article appeared with USD15 billion of loan backed by falsified gold transaction.
On 16 January 2013 German put out a great fanfare about bringing back their gold hold in the US FED (300 tonnes) and in the French vaults (374 tonnes).
Now, 18 months later, it says some gold came back (37 tons, of which 5 from the US).
And it announced that they have haled the request to repatriate the gold, as there is no mistrust between Governments (Bundestag announcement)
The repatriation started when the Federal Reserve refused to show the gold to German officials. And nobody seen the German gold thereafter (and maybe nobody will never see it).
These news promptly did not make any appearance on the mainstream media
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