Ping. BS? Reverse psyops?
Ping. Another idiotic article?
Maybe it’s a counterstrike against the dollar, but it would seem to me that Germany would want to keep a lid on gold for the same reason anyone with a shaky paper currency would - to keep people from flooding to it.
Plus, Germany and the Eurozone should want a strong dollar as it increases their imports. This wouldn’t totally square with what the Chinese are saying, nor does it make sense in and of itself, unless there’s an angle I’m missing.
Which is entirely possible. With so much money and derivatives sloshing around out there today it’s hard to know sometimes what the true objective is. The complexity of the chess game has multiplied by many orders of magnitude since I worked on the street many years ago.