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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2025 12:34PM

    Gold Goes Full Reserve Asset as Basel III Elevates It to Tier 1 Status

    Central Banks now Crave Gold.

    "This is a huge shift in how regulators perceive gold, and it’s a long-overdue recognition of what many of us have known for decades: Gold is money. And it’s the kind of money you want to own when the world is on fire."

    No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

  • GoldFinger1969GoldFinger1969 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Treating gold or any PM as a HQLA is ridiculous. Only money market instruments and short-term bond funds should get that treatment, plus some asset and mortgage-backed securities (ABS, MBS).

    Those of you who criticize banks and regulators should be the first ones complaining about utilizing a non-interest bearing asset which experiences high volatility as a HQLA.

    I have no problem with gold counting as a reserve asset, appropriately risk-weighted.

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @GoldFinger1969 said:
    Treating gold or any PM as a HQLA is ridiculous. Only money market instruments and short-term bond funds should get that treatment, plus some asset and mortgage-backed securities (ABS, MBS).

    Those of you who criticize banks and regulators should be the first ones complaining about utilizing a non-interest bearing asset which experiences high volatility as a HQLA.

    I have no problem with gold counting as a reserve asset, appropriately risk-weighted.

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    Alan Greenspan once stated :

    Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

    That sounds like a high-quality liquid asset to me.
    At the New York Federal Reserve Bank there are various vaults for holding the gold of different owners.
    You want to transfer gold from one country to another ? Put it on a cart and wheel it down the hall to another vault. Done.

    Physical currency is about as liquid as you can get since it can be spent just about anywhere in the country. But it doesn't pay any interest either.

    Money market instruments and bond funds can suffer liquidity issues.

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  • GoldFinger1969GoldFinger1969 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dcarr said:
    Money market instruments and bond funds can suffer liquidity issues.

    Highly unlikely. And I doubt gold would catch a bid in those times.

    Gold last was a good hedge in 1979-80. It flopped in 1987, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2012, and 2020.

    As David Einhorn said, you buy gold for a move to $5,000...not $35,000. :D

  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17, 2025 8:10AM

    No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

  • rte592rte592 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes I do...

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