France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain (www.mining.com)
from tirateimas@lemmy.pt to world@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 10:51
https://lemmy.pt/post/15009099

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REDACTED@infosec.pub on 06 Apr 11:37 next collapse

What’s up with that body text? I assumed they’re always manually written by whoever submits the post

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 11:49 next collapse

It’s auto pulled from the article and the article isn’t opening for me either.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 12:07 next collapse

Lemmy automation that doesn’t work. As a poster you can do nothing. The worst kind of automation there is.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 06 Apr 13:50 collapse

It all looks good on my end. Could be the app I use corrects it in translation tho.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 15:45 collapse

Are you claiming to not see this?:

ERROR: The request could not be satisfied www.mining.com

northernlights@lemmy.today on 06 Apr 15:57 next collapse

I see that too, on lemmy.today.

trevdog@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 17:00 next collapse

fwiw I don’t see that anywhere

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 17:15 collapse

OK, but in the standard web interface it’s there, maybe the app removers it, because it’s an automatically added text, that more often than not is irrelevant.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 06 Apr 19:13 collapse

Yup. I don’t see that.

HubertManne@piefed.social on 06 Apr 14:43 collapse

no body text appears for me. I would be annoyed at an automated one. The body to me is supposed to be the start of the conversations from the poster.

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 16:09 collapse

I’m on sync, don’t see any body text

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 06 Apr 16:54 collapse

Just so you know what I meant:

<img alt="Image" src="https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/8ac5ad01-9717-4f7e-b4d9-39947dcffac1.jpeg">

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 17:06 collapse

Yeah that’s not there for me <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/12c1fde4-ad0b-4433-8274-8a836164e2d7.png">

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 12:14 next collapse

Germany should do the same, why haven’t they already?
theguardian.com/…/repatriate-the-gold-german-econ…

USA no longer deserves to be the financial center of the world they’ve been for many years.
Gold reserves, petro dollar, global reserve currency, and as collateral damage, the continued flood of brain power coming from around the world will stop. It will all collapse because the American population is too stupid to elect an even somewhat sensible government.

It’s kind of sad, because the ideals USA claimed to protect were fine, it just turned out to be a lie. And now they are not even protected but are falling apart inside USA too.

USA no longer deserves our trust, and not even our respect anymore.

deacon@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 14:47 collapse

As an American I feel like I should be disputing this but all of your points are quite good.

8oow3291d@feddit.dk on 06 Apr 15:20 collapse

I were going to make a list here of just the most outrageous offenses the US has done to US allies in just the last months. But the list kept getting too long for the short witty response I wanted to make…

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip on 06 Apr 17:32 collapse

What if you focus on stuff the US didn’t used to do? Because they used to do all the imperialist stuff too, just with more excuses to try justifying it (or, better secrecy).

unpossum@sh.itjust.works on 06 Apr 18:32 collapse

Due to rising gold prices, the move helped the bank to generate a capital gain of €13 billion ($15 billion), bringing it to a net profit of €8.1 billion for the 2025 financial year after a net loss of €7.7 billion in 2024.

If they sold gold in New York to buy gold in Europe, how did they turn a profit? Is this some accounting magic I’m too poor to understand?

freebee@sh.itjust.works on 06 Apr 18:41 next collapse

Dunno and didn’t read article, but buy in Europe first, prices go up, sell in USA last.

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz on 06 Apr 18:42 collapse

they simply sold the older, less pure gold bars in New York for what they were worth in U.S. dollars as gold prices were reaching all-time highs, then pocketed the cash and bought bars that met their updated weight and purity standards in Europe, as prices conveniently pulled back.
-https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-04-06/bank-france-sells-its-129-tonne-us-gold-reserve-then-buys-it-back-europe

unpossum@sh.itjust.works on 06 Apr 19:06 collapse

Hah, nice. Thank you for the link.