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To: paul ross who wrote (4039)	12/9/1997 5:40:00 PM
From: Heretic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116857

USA Today regurgitates the party line... Gold losing status as financial safety net usatoday.com

To: paul ross who wrote (4039)	12/10/1997 3:04:00 AM
From: paul ross	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116857

I have put together these nos. from many of the links posted here and on other threads. I have referenced by number (1-8) where I got the figures. Also, I used 32,400 troy oz./ tonne as a conversion factor. All nos. for gold are in millions of troy ounces. ...........................Millions of troy ozs. 1. TOTAL CENTRAL BANK HOLDINGS.......903.6. ...TOTAL IMF HOLDINGS................103.4 ...TOTAL EMI HOLDINGS.................89.7 2.TOP 5 CB HOLDERS OF GOLD ..US.................................261.8 ..GERMANY.............................95.2 ..SWITZERLAND.........................83.3 ..FRANCE..............................81.9 ..ITALY...............................66.7 3.TOTAL WORLD GOLD INVENTORY........3858.0 to ....................................4020.0 4.TOTAL WORLD GOLD PRODUCTION (YEARLY) ...MINING.............................77.7 ...MINING, SCRAP,AND RECLAIM.........122.0 5.TOTAL YEARLY WORLD GOLD DEFICIT.....32.0 to .................48.6 6.TOTAL GOLD LOANED...................97.2 to .....................................259.2 7.US MONEY SUPPLY.......(trillions of dollars) ..M2 (3,900,000 million)...............3.9 . ..M3 (5,200,000 million)...............5.2 8.US DEBT ..............(trillions of dollars) ...(5,400,000 million)................5.4 References: biz.yahoo.com .............for nos. 4 and 6. Message 1747972 ..........nos. 1,2,3,and 4. gold.org .....for nos. 1,4,5, and 6. gold-eagle.com .......for no. 3. brillig.com ...for no. 8. bog.frb.fed.us ..for no. 7 Also, somewhere I read that the total available of the CB 903.6M supply for lease, due to respective country constitution/laws, was about 45% of the 903.6M or approx. 450M. I was unable to relocate that reference. If someone remembers where it is could they let me know.