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Thirteen year old gold sale has cost UK GBP11 billion

Michael Allan McCrae | March 21, 2012 | 7:27 pm Precious Metals Europe Gold 

Gordon Brown's sale of 400 tons of gold in 1999 has cost the United Kingdom GBP11 billion, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in his 2012 budget speech. Osborne said the decision to sell the gold was "....

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