Le Metropole Members,
Served at The Hemingway Table:
Put Your Fingers in Your Ears
By: Ed Steer
04 August 2007
"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure."
"Last week the Italian government announced that they
might consider selling some of their gold in order
to bring their huge deficit under control. The gold
market yawned.
"I believe that it was Dan Norcini over at Jim Sinclair's
site that commented that this might just be the Italian
Central Bank's way of writing off the gold it allegedly
lost during the LTCM crisis. The rumour swirling around
at the time was that LTCM went under with a 3-400 tonne
gold short position and was one of the reasons that the
Fed stepped in to organize a bailout."