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Lord James told Sky News he was approached nearly six months ago and asked to help broker a deal which could be bigger than the Marshall Plan, the US fund which helped Europe recover from the Second World War.
My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came up with a very different argument. He said that this cannot be right because these people said at the meeting with him that they were still effectively on the gold standard from back in the 1920s and that their entire currency holdings throughout the world, which were very large, were backed by bullion. My noble friend Lord Strathclyde came back and said to me that he had an analyst working on it and that this had to be stuff and nonsense. He said that they had come up with a figure for the amount of bullion that would be needed to cover their currency reserves, as claimed, which would be more than the entire value of bullion that had ever been mined in the history of the world.
Originally posted by Stop-loss!
reply to post by Jeanius
Too bad copper cant be a precious metal since pennies are made of it and those are hardly worth anything! Gold should be used for more purposes then the primary use as currency.
Originally posted by MR BOB
Originally posted by Stop-loss!
reply to post by Jeanius
Too bad copper cant be a precious metal since pennies are made of it and those are hardly worth anything! Gold should be used for more purposes then the primary use as currency.
Copper is worth money, if you happen to see any scrap copper around you can collect it, and trade it in for some good money. the price is rising.edit on 6-11-2010 by MR BOB because: (no reason given)