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Pastimes : All Clowns Must Be Destroyed

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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (28813)4/24/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: SBerglowe  Read Replies (1) of 42523
 
Le Metropole Members,

Greg Pickup has served commentary at The Toulouse-
Lautrec Table entitled, "The Dark Side of the Dollar."

"In the April 24th edition of Barron?s an anonymous
Fed official was quoted as saying, ?The current-account
problem is a bigger one than inflation. If prices
heat up, we can work with that. But if tons of
capital are pulled out of the U.S. then it?s a
systemic risk.?

"Gold exported from the Fed would be in the form
of unworked bars. The dollar value for Jan and Feb
unworked gold exports was $1,151 million dollars.
The balance was bullion coins, gold dust, numismatic
coins, gold powder and gold dross. We say appears
because nowhere is the actual currency stated but
we assume it must be dollars. Neither is the unit
of measurement which was 122,384,749. However it
appears this is grams as it works out to $9.4 per
unit and there are 31.1 grams in the troy ounce
which would put the price at $292 per ounce."

Easy read and excellent commentary by Greg. He did
a good deal of homework to prepare this for you.
A big picture statement.
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