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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Gold

Very interesting. I should try to verify this myself:
It turned out that there were ten times as many troy ounces of nominal gold, stored away in the world’s safest places, than there was solid gold to be found — on the same planet. Ninety percent of this gold was paper, then, and would be electrons today, on some leftist creep’s fickle server.
Posted by james at 5:40 PM
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