{"id":432872,"date":"2010-03-15T21:25:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/should-the-gold-market-fear-the-us-dumping-its-gold-to-pay-down-debt-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:25:34","slug":"should-the-gold-market-fear-the-us-dumping-its-gold-to-pay-down-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432872","title":{"rendered":"Should The Gold Market Fear The US Dumping Its Gold To Pay Down Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>The answer to that question is a resounding no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usablemarkets.com\/2010\/03\/15\/gold-and-the-current-account-deficit-and-the-us-debt\/\">Alex Kirtland of Usable Markets<\/a> posted this chart showing US gold holdings in relation to US debt.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the idea of selling gold to pay off any meaningful amount of debt would be a joke.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9edd1e7f8b9a816e690600-550-443\/gold.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gold\" width=\"550\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That being said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mineweb.com\/mineweb\/view\/mineweb\/en\/page504?oid=100935&amp;sn=Detail\">gold traders do apparently fear euro gold sales<\/a>, as French and German leaders plan a new EMF to pay for future bailouts. This is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-get-ready-for-europe-to-sell-off-gold-to-fund-the-emf-2010-3\">Dennis Gartman<\/a> has brought up recently.<\/p>\n<p>That, along with the risk trade, is why gold&#8217;s been such a dog lately. (<em>send hatemail to jweisenthal@businessinsider.com<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9edd967f8b9a12210e0800\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"510\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/should-the-gold-market-fear-the-us-dumping-its-gold-to-pay-down-debt-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-get-ready-for-europe-to-sell-off-gold-to-fund-the-emf-2010-3\">Gartman: Here&#8217;s Why Europe Is About To Dump Lots Of Gold Onto The Market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/deadly-toxin-invades-barricks-dominican-gold-mine-thousands-hospitalized-2010-3\">Deadly Toxin Invades Barrick&#8217;s Dominican Gold Mine, Thousands Hospitalized<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-threatened-by-etf-overhang-2010-3\">Credit Suisse: The Upcoming ETF Unwind Will Pummel Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/tZbzW-lBQiA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha! The answer to that question is a resounding no. Alex Kirtland of Usable Markets posted this chart showing US gold holdings in relation to US debt. As you can see, the idea of selling gold to pay off any meaningful amount of debt would be a joke. That being said, gold traders do apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}