REMEMBER THAT GERMAN GOLD REPATRIATION THING? WELL, IT’S GOING ...
A couple of years ago one of the stories we were watching here was Germany's attempts to repatriate its gold from the New York Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France, and bring it physically back to the Bundesbank's vaults in Germany. That move, you'll recall, began as a popular movement, rather than within the German government itself. It began first as a request for a full audit of Germany's reserves, reputed to be the second largest in the world after the United States.
At that time, I also pointed out that it was not the first time "something fishy" seemed to be going on with Germany's gold bullion, for I also noted that in his memoirs, former Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, recounted an episode which occurred during his visit to the USA in 1928. Back then, Schacht visited his old friend and the then Governor of the New York Fed, Benjamin Strong, and asked to see the Reichsbank's gold reserves as his host led him on a tour of the New York Fed's vaults. Moments later, the staff came back to the two central bankers to report that they could not find the Reichsbank's gold reserves. Schacht then records a response that seems incongruous, to this day:
Another amusing incident arose from the fact that the Reichsbank maintained a not inconsiderable gold deposit in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Strong was proud to be able to show us the vaults which were situated in the deepest cellar of the building an remarked:
"Now, Herr Schacht, you shall see where the Reichsbank gold is kept."
"While the staff looked for the hiding place of the Reichsbank gold we went through the vaults. We waited several minutes; at length we were told: "Mr. Strong, we can't find the Reichsbank gold."
Strong was flabbergasted but I comforted him. "Never mind: I believe you when you say the gold is there. Even if it weren't you are good for its replacement." (See Confessions of the Old Wizard: TheAutobiography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Houghton Mifflin: 1956, p. 245.)
And that was that, as far as Schacht was concerned. Not another word is said about it throughout the remainder of his memoirs; the event remained nothing more than an "amusing incident" in a book replete with all manner of insider financial revelations, and Schacht was nothing if not the consummate "insider". Among the many other "revelations" recorded are the fact that Sir Charles Addis "who had spent many years as head of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation" had become, by 1929, "a member of the Board of the Reichsbank." (p. 233)
If you're like me, you probably find Schacht's little story of "the amusing incident", more than a little suspicious, particularly when viewed through the lens of current German gold repatriation efforts. But wait, there's more.
In his autobiography, Schacht also recounts at some length one of his most ingenious schemes, the Golddiskontbank which was established in March 1924 and continued in operation right through the end of the Second World War. The essence of the scheme was that Schacht established a bank that was allowed to issue banknotes - which it never did - in pounds sterling. I've always wondered if in fact there was some relation between this little Schacht scheme and the Nazi counterfeiting operation known as Operation Bernhard, which counterfeited over a hundred million pounds sterling worth of currency during the war, some of which was virtually undetectable from the real thing.
Now why am I bothering with all this? Because if one looks at Schacht's revelations carefully, what we have are three key elements of what I've been arguing is a post-war system of hidden finance: (1) lots of (missing) gold (the 1928 NY Federal Reserve gold "amusing incident", (2) fraudulent securities or currency(Operation Bernhard, which would not have had to have been restricted simply to counterfeiting currencies), and (3) the participation of major prime banks of the West (Schacht's allusion to the nexus between the Reichsbank and HSBC via Sir Charles Addis).
With this historical review in mind, we can look at this story shared by Mr. J.K. and Ms. B.:
Bundesbank Repatriates Gold From New York, Paris "Faster Than Planned"
As the Zero Hedge article points out, the real reason for the repatriation was precisely over questions of just how much gold did Germany really have, that "grass roots" movement I noted at the beginning of the article:
... the real reasons, however, is that following several reports on this website which cast doubts on Germany's gold holdings, in late 2012 the German Court of Auditors demanded that the Bundesbank undertake an audit of its gold reserves. Specifically, the court wanted to ensure that the nearly 3400 tons of gold, of which more than 2,000 tonnes held offshore, is in fact in existence - 'because stocks have never been checked for authenticity and weight'. The move to repatriate was only accelerate following rumors that much of the offshore-held gold might have been "rehypothecated", and not be there anymore, that it might have been melted down, leased, or sold.
Ironically, at the time, Bundesbank Board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele told the Handelsblatt that these moves were a “trust-building” measure, and he tried vigorously to put the rumors about the missing gold to rest. Of course, repatriating your gold from foreign central banks is precisely the opposite of a "demonstration of confidence." (Italicized emphasis added)
Of course, the call for repatriation and audit is exactly the opposite response than Schacht's behavior at the NY Fed in 1928, but the underlying hypothesis in both cases remains the same: perhaps in 1928 the NY Fed could not find Germany's gold simply because it was rehypothecated, i.e., melted down, leased, or sold elsewhere.
Now what's interesting here is that the Bundesbank, according to the Zero Hedge article, appears not to have slowed its repatriation, but rather, to have accelerated it.
And that action raises all sorts of very intriguing high octane speculation hypotheses: could an internal audit of said gold have found more gold-plated tungsten than real gold? Or have found gold of less purity than was supposed to be the case? Or could such an audit have found other indications that have caused the Bundesbank to continue with the repatriation even though that shows the opposite of a "demonstration of confidence," i.e., is the Bundesbank no longer confident of the bona fides of its fellow central banks in Paris and New York? Or, conversely, is it doing so because of the internal meltdown of Deutschebank and all its alleged bad derivatives paper (remember that "fraudulent securities element")? Is this connected to the German government's warning this past year for Germans to prepare for "an emergency"? Of finally, is it doing so because of the weakening of the EU and the euro, against the possibility of having to reinstitute the D-mark?
These may all be possibilities, but for my part, I cannot help but indulge in some really high octane speculation, and think that the real story here is revealed by Schacht's recounting of the "amusing incident" in 1928, a story that he deliberately mentions, and draws attention to by noting that he believes the NY Fed is "good for it," i.e., his remarks imply that he is aware that something is afoot, something untoward, and that he knows what it is. There the remarks stand to this day: they have never been followed up on, nor accounted for. But Schacht himself, let it be noted, found himself after the war in a number of "gold hot spots" such as Indonesia, where, once again, all that buried Japanese loot enters the story. And lest we forget, "gold" of course in some circles means "drugs," and the international trade in them. And a certain major oriental bank has allegedly been involved in such activities... (HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World's Drug Money)
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Goshawks brings up a good point. Thank you Doc as ever for the context accretion. Quite the opposite of the goal of Mr Global’s darpanet dealings.
Robert as regards questions on upcoming warfare?
http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/copper_historical_large.html
anyone here ever compare copper price charts to historical war buildups. only other times i remember copper prices not predicting war were homebuilding binges requiring lotsa wire.
It seems either the NY Fed is not making appropriate disclosures, nor Germany’s BAFIN. http://www.gata.org/node/17075
Just as a final PS .. http://www.bobfletcherinvestigations.com/underground-hideouts.html
Is this the reason USA no longer has any gold left?
Aliens need white powder gold to stop ageing.
Graeme.
At this point I want to mention one fact. First, Gheddafi gold was seized without any reason or justification before 2011 war (perhaps also before 2000 when Libya was targeted for the first time in 80 years), after . .. . . in last war we know caused on because Gaddafi was already making concrete steps towards the creation of an african inter-currency that would in huge way harmed the economic interests of the NWO (British, American, French, but I would say especially American), also we know, other reasons of the war were/are/will be sionists and geopolitical.
I’m not english mother tongue and I wolud excuse-me if my english si incorrect.
We must welcome and thank Russia and their friends if someone put a brake to this axis of evil, the real terrorism that has brought us to this new world order. the fact of this secret of the gold sure has the unmentionable reasons that we have to hurry to understand. the time that was given to us (the rest of the people of the world) by Russia must exploit it well and soon, we may not have many more opportunities . . . . . I’m suspecting something of very bad, that I will not even name
Of course the internationalist NWO types loathe nation-states. Even Clinton & Rubin quipped in the 90s how quaint that people still referred at all about the obsolete nation states. Now Nation States also believe in another quaint concept: gold as money. The internationalist would like to get rid of gold[precious metal as money] and cash. They want computer bits ad infinitum under their monopoly control. So this gold question to my mind’s view speaks of the nation states. The prime targets are the BRICS. Trump is in to make friendly with the Russians to drive a wedge between China and Russia. They are afraid of the Silk Road triangle” Iran, Russia and China. The Fed is going to raise the interest a quarter point to send a little message[in reality a tsunami] to investors in the EU. They will, in turn, send a flood of money into the dollar as Trump invest heavily in the U.S. infrastructure…
Specifically, the U.S. military infrastructure in getting footing for a war with Iran. Trump in heavily weighted on the Israeli side of the coin and is loading his cabinet with neo cons, including Mad Dog Mattis for secretary of Defense.
Europe is proposing confiscating gold. India is already doing it. China is supposedly limited its import. This gold bug is catching on. The question is what is behind this, that they’re not telling us? They are using the terrorist card as an excuse[they run state-sponsored terrorism after all]
Will the only gold left be acapulco gold[drugs]?
A cashless society with gold as criminal?
But, there are those pesky nation-states in the way.
By the way, war with China is supposedly the Trump objective vis a vis Israeli quibitzing. Israel & Trump getting buddy, buddy with Russia.
Too bad, Putin is too sharp.
So what’s really going on?
“Trump invest heavily in the U.S. infrastructure…”
You mean the Military Industrio Complex?
I was just thinking to myself.. America needs some more Nuclear bombs. That’ll make Rica great again..
First off, I’d like to thank Dr. Farrell for all of the ‘background’ he puts into his daily articles. Single data-points are okay, but have limited usefulness. It is when enough data-points are assembled on a single page that patterns become evident. Thank you, Joseph, for taking that effort with us…
Physical gold has always been the ‘retreat position’ for nations and wealthy individuals when fear-of-something-major arises. As such, it is an informal-but-accurate ‘indicator’ of something REALLY going-on, rather than what the MSM or talking-heads tell you. The rise in various nations scrambling for physical gold (Germany included) is as good an indicator as the ‘Baltic Exchange Dry Index’ that something (hidden) Big is going-on. Also, a few days ago, J Stone remarked that Soros had just bought HUGE into physical gold. Think about that. So, Something is getting close…
I can’t let this topic go without a bit of tip-of-the-twig speculation. What if physical gold is being scrambled-for because the ‘stock’ is diminishing? Off-planet. Besides DNA, high-purity precious-metals would be a category worth trading or bartering in interstellar markets. (“Gold-pressed latinum.”) Gold for ‘guns’. Gold for ‘inventions’. Perhaps even gold for ‘mercenaries’. I can think of a lot of reasons physical gold would be disappearing off-planet…
This is one of those hole in the dyke stories. That could lead to the “Break Away” contingent being exposed. They have to pay a lot of people to stick fingers in those holes. However, when those people see they won’t get a pension and or their personal fortunes are going into the commode. Things will change. But, they still appear to be managing the deception well.
If the Federal Reserve is up to it’s ears in this gold mess, then the Fed’s “owners” are in the prime position to control this flow. The Fed’s “owners” are not known, but one suspects the usual suspects of the “two R’s” and these families have been doing “shady deals” for a long time. So is this gold going “somewhere” off world? to finance some kind of space exploration or doing “trade” deals with our cosmic cousins??
Where ever it’s going, it’s a very very very well kept secret, well isn’t the secret space program a secret?
Now they’ll be able to pay for this. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/361832-eu-army-nato-germany/
The more interesting and revealing article is the second year and ten months on the history of HSBC. That bank would make any mafia family green with envy or scare the poop out them in terror. The so called British Empire was a Empire of Crime beyond belief.
If you are the master mind or part of a scheme to take down the United States one way or another then you would wisely try to retrieve 2/3rds of your gold reserves before that happened.
I came across something about using radioactivity to trace bullion. Now that would have interesting implications…
How the heck did Germany keep so much Gold after the OSS pinched it all after WW2.. to return it to the rightful owners of course.. Luckily most of them had been killed.. phew..
Bringing gold back to the Farterland, soapbox ranting about building up the Army, hordes of ravenous je… sorry Immigrants/refugee/Soro-mercos raping their way through the locals, Continued ‘terrorist’ attacks.. The stage is ripe. Achtung!
Ask the Deutschebank to go to Argentina and get the Ol’Nazis to pay back all the gold they U-boated out of the 3rd Reich. That’d boost the bankbooks.. Probably stop Obama(if that’s his real name..) and Na(Z)sa (Im telling you, they’re hiding in plein sight.. like those sickos in DC)… holiday-tripping down there if there were no more money down there.