>>22491001Not posted on /biz/ since mandatory email verification, but I'll take my chances here instead.
Anyone got any resources on the history British Gold reserves? I'm thinking of doing some looking up, because tl;dr;
>going on a usual stint looking through Wikipedia>anecdotally, a lot of people in the UK are "aware" of Browns Bottom where some dickhead (who would later go on to be Prime Minister) decided to sell off half our reserves at pennies rates>but the catch is that everyone seems to think that's where all the post-empire Gold went, when in reality, that was a drop in the puddle - he sold off ~400tonnes, taking us from ~700->300>basically the UK had like 2,500+ tonnes of Gold at the end of WW2, and actually grew it a bit in the short term afterwards (pre-globalisation), then from the 60's-70's (during Douglas-Home / Wilson, two relatively lesser-known Prime Ministers), our reserves just evaporate>so how did it go from 2,500 -> 700?>plus, if the media pushes a narrative (aka Brown fucked our Gold reserves) when the numbers say otherwise; what's the motive?Basically, my Anon-certified schizo-senses are tingling, and between the Winds of Change bullshit, the numerous "thinktanks" (political corruption orgs) that sprung up at the time and the complete disappearance of almost 2,000 tonnes of Gold in the 60's (nearly the size of the entire current reserves of China today), all tidied up with a seeming void of economic press coverage or historical records from the time, there's some stinky shit going on, and I'm interested what the fuck went down from us coming out of WW2 crippled but on an upswing, to the globalisation bullshit that has run us so far into the ground today, ex-eastern bloc countries are doing better than us right now.
That, and where the fuck all that Gold went seems to be the biggest element of it. It feels like the kind of thing somebody else has looked into and has done a screencap of, but if not, I'll go ahead and look into it myself
