Twenty years ago today...........
16th September (or Wonderful Wednesday, as we all soon came to know it), the day certain people in the financial markets :o saved the UK economy by forcing the UK government to withdraw from the ERM.......... ah, happy days........
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Re: Twenty years ago today...........
That long ago? I remember that night well.
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Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Yes, really - it is that long ago. Now I'm really feeling my age - but wasn't it called Black Wednesday back then?
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Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by hnd
(Post 10284051)
Yes, really - it is that long ago. Now I'm really feeling my age - but wasn't it called Black Wednesday back then?
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Re: Twenty years ago today...........
from the erm...what?
spit it out Deano...suspence is killing me oh the E R M |
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Didn't Gordon Brown flogging gold at it's cheapest technically cost the government more than that Wednesday (which I don't remember because I was 4 years old....just to remind you pensioners.)
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Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 10284457)
Didn't Gordon Brown flogging gold at it's cheapest technically cost the government more than that Wednesday (which I don't remember because I was 4 years old....just to remind you pensioners.)
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Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 10284457)
Didn't Gordon Brown flogging gold at it's cheapest technically cost the government more than that Wednesday (which I don't remember because I was 4 years old....just to remind you pensioners.)
No idea how true that actually is. |
Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by typical
(Post 10288582)
Only in retrospect. The gold sale has also seen some revisionism though (if much more quietly than Black Wednesday) - the point being that the gold dumping was part of a bank bailout triggered by a nasty unwinding of the gold carry trade.
No idea how true that actually is. |
Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by The Dean
(Post 10288949)
The basic cock-up was the fact that Chancellor Brown told the market in advance when he was going to sell the gold, and how many ounces.........
But it was only a cock-up if he wasn't trying to sell low - and some people are now claiming that he was, because the gold carry trade was in serious danger of collapsing horribly as the price of gold started to pick up. It was a lack of gold that brought down LTCM finally, as I understand it... |
Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by typical
(Post 10288955)
... and then sold by auction.
But it was only a cock-up if he wasn't trying to sell low - and some people are now claiming that he was, because the gold carry trade was in serious danger of collapsing horribly as the price of gold started to pick up. It was a lack of gold that brought down LTCM finally, as I understand it... |
Re: Twenty years ago today...........
Originally Posted by The Dean
(Post 10288996)
Interesting............... wasn't aware of most of that - will do a bit of research..... why would he try to sell low?
Lots of rumours swirling around now. American news starting to speculate that gold was being manipulated alongside LIBOR, and that several banks were highly short gold in '99... |
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