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The Bank of England Gold Sale Fiasco

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the decision by former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to sell the majority of the British government’s gold reserves, a process that took two years.
At the end of May 1999, the pound was worth about $1.61 US

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