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Can the United States be trusted with Germany’s gold?

Its leader is trying to cripple the country’s most important industry. His deputy thinks it’s a pathetic freeloader. The man who has their ear is throwing what look a lot like Nazi salutes and openly interfering in its elections to support a far-right party that its own intelligence service thinks is a threat to the constitution.

No wonder, then, that some politicians in Germany are worried that what was for decades seen as one of the world’s most reliable storehouses might not be so secure after all.

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      3 days ago

      That doesn’t really drive its current price though. It’s a fetish for some people who have a problem with current monetary systems in general.