Euro Bailout

PORTUGAL URGED TO SELL ITS CACHE OF GOLD TO PAY OFF DEBT…….

Portugal’s gold reserves are worth some $17.5 billion, and rising due to the spike in gold prices. KGS

H/T: Tundra Tabloids’ reader

Portugal urged to sell gold to escape debt crisis

BERLIN (Commodity Online) : Debt ridden Portugal could help itself by selling from its gold reserves before appealing for any more help from the European Union, according to German law makers.

German MP’s include Norbert Barthle, governing coalition budget speaker Carsten Schneider from the Social Democrats, the biggest opposition party and Frank Schäffler, a member of the pro-business FDP liberal party urged Portugal to consider selling some of its gold reserves to ease its debt problems.

They called for a review of Portugal’s request for financial aid to include gold and other potential asset sales.

The German lawmakers did not specify who should buy the gold from the Portuguese central bank but given the challenges facing Germany and the Eurozone, it is likely that the Bundesbank and the ECB would be willing buyers if the gold is not already encumbered due to Portugal’s membership of the Eurozone.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and EU Economy Commissioner Olli Rehn warned on Thursday that the Portuguese people would have to deliver “truly national” and “major” reform efforts in exchange for $116 billion bailout which has just been agreed.

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2 Responses

  1. Soros & co. are begininng to dump their ‘paper metals’ at record highs in order to drive the price of physical metal down. Using the profits of this sale to buy physical metals as it becomes available at a much lower value in order to corner the metals market.

    How many countries have been suckered by this manipulative cretin?

  2. heck . . . don’t just ask them to consider selling their gold – tell them to.

    Surely you stock up in gold reserves in the good times as an insurance policy against the bad times.

    Well . . the bad times for Portugal are here so they need to dump their gold now.

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