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Some central banks are showing increasing concerns about their gold holdings

David Levenstein | March 13, 2012 | 5:39 pm Precious Metals Gold 

For more than 20 years, most central banks diversified out of gold into currencies, especially the US dollar as well as US Treasuries.  All these Keynesian thinkers scorned any banker who dared to consider gold anything other than some “barbaric...

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