The past couple of days I've been blogging about banks and the national security state, and over the past few months, the bearer bonds scandals and the calls from various countries for audits and even repatriation of their gold. With respect to the latter issue, the burden of my blogs has been to show: that there is massive obfuscation in the official amounts of gold said to be in existence; and, that whatever the amount really may be, any portion of this amount in the hands of central and/or prime banks in the west has been massively re-hypothecated. Well, the latest country to get … [Read more...]