German ministry denies Bundesbank gold sale report
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Finance Ministry said on Saturday a magazine report that the government wants the Bundesbank to sell some of its gold reserves to help ease pressure on the federal budget was untrue.
Der Spiegel magazine reported in a preview of its latest edition that Finance Ministry State Secretary Werner Gatzer had proposed selling part of the central bank's gold reserves, currently worth around 65 billion euros ($103 billion).
According to the plan, the proceeds could then be either invested to earn interest or debt could be paid off freeing up cash that would have been used to for interest payments, the magazine said, citing unidentified participants in a March 13 meeting of budget experts.
"This claim is untrue," Finance Ministry spokesman Torsten Albig said in an emailed statement.
"State Secretary Gatzer has at no time raised the issue of such a proposal. The Finance Ministry considers such a debate neither appropriate nor likely to lead to the desired results.
"The Bundesbank's gold reserves are not available to be used for budgetary purposes."
Germany is a signatory to the Central Bank Gold Agreement, under which 15 European central banks agreed to limit their sales of gold over a five-year period to 2,500 tonnes, with annual sales limited to 500 tonnes.
Bundesbank President Axel Weber said this month the bank would probably hold on to the vast bulk of its reserves in the next year of the agreement, beginning in September.
The Bundesbank is the second-largest holder of gold behind the U.S. Federal Reserve and announced in October it would sell a maximum of 8 tonnes of gold to the finance ministry to mint coins in the fourth year of the agreement.
Gold prices have more than doubled in the last five years, lifting the value of central bank reserves.
(Reporting by Iain Rogers)
UPDATE July 1, 2010: EVEN MUCH GREATER SHOCKER!
"The force" is with this story. Just as there is sudden intense interest in Israel - this post appeared on Rotter today and went viral right away- , I received an e-mail from my friend, Eric J. Phelps, author of Vatican's Assassins I, II, III.
This is what he writes:
ECB 7-1-10.pdf 684K View Download |
Notice that the YouTube video exposing the role of the Vatican in the Ustasha massacres was taken down from YouTube. Do not be surprised, the Vatican has very, very powerful friends everywhere.
http://forums.myspace.com/t/4321115.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread
Vatican's Holocaust: Nazi Croatia Death Camps
Part 1 (9 min, 44 sec)
Part 2 (9 min, 52 sec)
Part 3 (9 min, 59 sec)
Part 4 (9 min, 19 sec)
Part 5 (7 min, 50 sec)
Part 6 (8 min, 52 sec)
Here are a few more links about the story:
http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/belgrade.htm
DO NOT THINK THAT THIS IS A THING OF THE PAST, THIS IS REAL, IT IS EVER PRESENT. NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO IT IS MISSING THE BIGGEST PART OF TODAY'S EVENTS.
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ISRAEL HAS NO GOLD RESERVES
Update, from a top notch gold expert, Jim Sinclair, April 20thm 2013:
"Dear CIGAs,
Has your fortune been stolen? Did it ever exist in the first place? Gold storage today is the greatest temptation in the history of the world!
There are shocking signs that gold held "in storage," "in the system," has in fact been stolen from you just as it was stolen from the Jewish survivors after the end of the Second World War. We know that there is a history of this in Europe and elsewhere that when the surviving Jewish depositors demanded their gold from banks, their request was denied because of the need to fulfill banking regulations concerning proof of ownership. Time has revealed that the truth was many of the grand mansions on the great lakes of Europe were built with the gold that was denied to the lawful relatives of those Jewish people that had died during the war.
What makes you think the modern, generally despised, considered ignorant and less than worthy as an investor Gold Bugs are looked on with different eyes by bankers in the system than the Gold Bugs of Germany, France, Poland and Austria were?
The sign that your gold does not exist and may never have existed is the same evidence that has been gathered from the rape of the surviving Jewish families of the last world war. The "in system" storage companies of banks will inform you that banking regulations first limit, then prevent you from obtaining your gold bullion held even in an allocated form. It will start as a limitation on gold withdrawal as a tool to prevent "money laundering" due to directives from their central bank concerning anti terrorism measures. If you hear that you are royally screwed. Was that not a form of what the surviving Jews were told? A bank regulation prevented them from getting their gold. It was not common shares or German marks they stored in the European banking system. It was primarily gold bullion.
A shocking trend is starting right now."
Comment to Jim Sinclair's article:
So the great thiefs, Germany, etc. have their gold stolen? God's justice.
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