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Russia has a $140 billion stockpile of gold, but no one wants to buy it (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, are you rushing to sign up for a Russian back account? I hear the exchange rate for rubles is starting to look like satoshis. And China plays so many games with their currency that nobody trusts it now. Seriously, keep wishing as hard as you can, but there's nothing better yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I certainly expect that Russia's financial system will fare much better than western one in a few years. Again, I have no idea who it is that doesn't trust Chinese financial system given that it's already doing a comparable amount of transactions to SWIFT. You could try educating yourself on this, here's a book you could try reading https://ca1lib.org/book/17400989/38bcf4