167 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 10 Jul \ parent \ on: Germany probably wanted to plug budget holes with gold news
firstly because they went straight to the market with it and secondly because the attempt to persuade the Bundesbank to sell gold is, in my opinion, very treacherous and points to problems. In addition, a new financial hole of 40 billion euros was discovered in the federal budget just last week