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Why the West sells gold and China buys it

- Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.

Different philosophies do not preclude deals. Given the different aims, the deal could be this: "We, the Chinese, have a surplus of dollars, and we really do not like the way you are devaluing it all the time. We could dump all our US government paper, but this might not be very clever: we might not get "best" value (for some value of "best") and you, the US government, might also see unwanted repurcussions - possible systemic instability, via various routes .... You do not want us to buy your oil companies, or similar real assets, but you seem to have no particular love of gold, nor use for it. So, if you just help us to hoover it up, by keeping the price down, then we will buy it up cheap, and not complain BY DEED about your despicable, deliberate inflation of the supply of dollars. We observe how you keep the whole machine working, we do not share your monetary religion, but we can live with it for a while: but if you do not help us in our absorbing the gold, which you insist you despise, then we will have to take other ways of liquidating out dollar surplusses. Deal?

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Beginning of the headline :A number of readers and bloggers have recently suggested there must be collusion between America and China over the transfer of physical gold from Western capital markets. They assume that governments know what they are doing, so there is a bigger game afoot of which we are unaware. The truth is that China and Western capital markets view gold very differently. You will hardly find anyone in the London Bullion Market who regards gold as money; and for them if gold is no longer money Chinese dema... Read More

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