can any city boys answer me this?
can any city boys answer me this?
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andymc

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7,625 posts

237 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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if we are in a state of financial meltdown where will the fed get the 700 billion, im aware it has a gold reserve but would it be selling it?
would they borrow from other countries as surely they will be over a barrel, anyway whats the interest on 700 billion, these things keep me up at night!
andy

davemac250

4,499 posts

235 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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News today sying it was going to be funded by tax increases.

Heskey

4,048 posts

223 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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davemac250 said:
tax increases.
"We're out of nails for this coffin, baws"

abdulaziz

656 posts

223 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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Iraq

Zod

35,295 posts

288 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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they'll borrow it in the form of Treasury bonds that the Chinese inter alia are very keen to buy. The interest will be around 2%, so annually around $14 billion.

Fittster

20,120 posts

243 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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Some people question how much gold the Yanks actually have. No audit of Fort Knox has been performed since 1950s.

rude-boy

22,227 posts

263 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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Fittster said:
Some people question how much gold the Yanks actually have. No audit of Fort Knox has been performed since 1950s.
Becasue there is nothing to see you see. Flemming's book was really a distraction from the successful raid paperbag

TEKNOPUG

20,492 posts

235 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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It's all buried on the moon

pies1981

8,998 posts

217 months

Friday 26th September 2008
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Fittster said:
Some people question how much gold the Yanks actually have. No audit of Fort Knox has been performed since 1950s.
fort knox is'nt even thier main federal reserve

elster

17,517 posts

240 months

Saturday 27th September 2008
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I don't understand this either. As money isn't actually real.

So why cant they just add a few zeros on?

FourWheelDrift

92,345 posts

314 months

Saturday 27th September 2008
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pies1981 said:
Fittster said:
Some people question how much gold the Yanks actually have. No audit of Fort Knox has been performed since 1950s.
fort knox is'nt even thier main federal reserve
Jeremy Irons and his gang robbed the real one and got it all away in a load of dumper trucks wink