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💰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The race to move gold bars out of London is so frantic they're even in the cargo of your flight to JFK
🔶️ The stampede to jet gold to New York led to a weekslong queue, as the Brits call it, to withdraw bars from the Bank of England’s subterranean stocks. Officials tasked with monitoring London’s bullion market have fielded anxious calls from bankers asking to short-circuit the system, said people familiar with the matter. The Bank of England responded that they have to wait for their turns.
🔶️ The gold rush shows how Trump’s steps to reshape world trade are rippling through international markets. He recently said Europe’s trade stance versus the U.S. was an atrocity, and promised punishing levies on the region. While it isn’t clear whether any tariffs would affect gold directly, the price spread widened after Trump unveiled broad-based aluminum and steel tariffs this week.
🔶️ Security firms shuttle bullion to the airport in London in high-strength vans. Comex contracts require a different size of bar, so traders need to send gold to Swiss refiners to recast it before flying on to the U.S. Sometimes, they cut out the first European leg by handing the refiner gold in London in exchange for the right size of bar, or flying bullion in from Australia instead.
Zohran Mamdani’s intern Arzoo Malik is calling for a Holy War through Jihad and martyrdom:
“This is all jihad, this is all ibada, and this is all counted for by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”
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