When you think about it, it's really quite a remarkable state of affairs for a nation to trust another nation so implicitly they give it physical control of (a non-trivial portion of) their treasury, in a sense. And now that is coming unravelled. Another marker of human civilization's slow deteroriation. I remember a time when I thought things would only keep getting better and better with advances in technology and information sharing.... how naive I was.

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bspammer 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They’re not moving it to the Netherlands. There’s still plenty of countries that the Dutch trust, but the US no longer seems to be on that list.

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mullingitover 19 hours ago | parent [-]

They still keep gold with the New York Fed, this was just a rebalance:

> Before the deployment, the Dutch bank held 31.3% of its gold in New York and 19.7% in Ottawa.

> After the move, each country accounted for 18.5% of the Dutch gold reserve.

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powcontech 19 hours ago | parent [-]

What building in Ottawa has 15 billion dollars of Dutch gold in it ?

	▲	camkego 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The Bank of Canada at 234 Wellington Street. If you try standing around taking photos for over fifteen minutes or so, let us know how that works out.
	▲	theGeatZhopa 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I also would like to know. GPS location anyone? I'm asking for a friend
	▲	mi_lk 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes policeman right here

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c23gooey 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

all of human civilisation =/= the USA

	▲	maplethorpe 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, things are really great everywhere else.
	▲	applfanboysbgon 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I didn't say it was. Do you believe that there's an upwards trend in global geopolitical stability, or even simply general well-being? If you do, we certainly don't share that opinion.

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wanderingpixel 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

not human civilization, just the United States.