Why is Germany sitting on US$599bil of gold?


Apart from modest sales to mint gold coins, nowadays the Bundesbank leaves its stash untouched. — Bloomberg

EIGHTY feet below the streets of Manhattan there’s a New York Federal Reserve (Fed) vault containing some US$220bil of German gold. Perhaps, it’s time Germany sold some of it.

My provocative suggestion was prompted by recent calls from opposition German politicians and the Bundesbank’s former head of research Emanuel Monch to repatriate this 1,236-tonne stash, made up of almost 100,000 bars.

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