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Sell. It's the cheapest option vs. moving (high risk). $164 billions would make a nice investment into infrastructure without touching their "Sondervermögen".


Selling that amount of gold would crash the price, devaluing their other reserves too.

What they have to do is move, but quietly, without announcing it.


Not all at once, obviously.


Gold is moved around the world all the time


Yet it's costly -- albeit they might get special conditions.

I hold Xetra Gold (tax free gains after 12mon). Some argue it's safe, because it can be delivered to the relationship bank: it's not really, it's uneconomical, at least for average Joe (~3% up to ~20% of value, heavily depending on denomination).




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