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Gold Reserves in Europe, 1913 (in metric tonnes)
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The Largest Gold Reserves, By Country
Gold remains an important store of value, serving as a hedge and retaining value during economic crises. In 2023, amid uncertainty about US interest rates and continued geopolitical risks, the metal once again demonstrated its importance by hitting a new record in December.
This graphic, by Sam Parker, displays the top 11 countries by gold reserves as of September 2023, based on data from Central Banks, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Gold Council.
Central Bank Gold Demand
Most of the world’s gold is stored in various locations, including central bank vaults, private depositories, and jewelry holdings. Countries maintain gold reserves for various reasons.
Firstly, gold serves as a stable and dependable store of value, enhancing confidence in a nation’s economic stability, especially during times of financial uncertainty. Additionally, despite the waning relevance of the gold standard, some countries still deem gold reserves crucial for maintaining currency stability.
Moreover, gold’s tangibility enables countries to diversify their overall portfolio. Currently, almost one-fifth of all the gold ever mined is held by central banks. The U.S. boasts the world’s largest gold reserves, with 8,133 tonnes stored in 12 Federal Reserve Banks across the country:
Russia and China—arguably the United States’ top geopolitical rivals—have been the largest gold buyers over the last two decades. The People’s Bank of China was the biggest buyer of gold last year, purchasing 225 tonnes. Seven of the top countries by gold reserves are also among the top 10 biggest economies.
— This article was published as a part of Visual Capitalist's Creator Program, which features data-driven visuals from some of our favorite Creators around the world.
— February 20, 2024 | By Sam Parker
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Explore the enduring allure of gold, symbolizing prosperity and stability, as we delve into India's prominence on the global stage. Delve into the world of statistics to uncover India's stature in gold reserves. Dive into the top nations leading in gold reserves and witness India's unique affinity to this radiant metal. Also, where to sell your precious possessions with 24Karat.
#Gold Reserves#India's Gold Reserves#Gold in Indian Culture#Trusted Gold Jewellery Buyers in delhi#Selling Gold in Delhi#Precious Metals#Gold Traditions#Silver Treasures#Delhi Silver Buyers#Instant Cash for your Gold#Gold Investments plans in india#Gold Power and Prosperity#Indian Festivals and Gold#Gold Heirlooms#Gold Transaction Trust#Gold Valuation#Gold Resale Value#Gold Trade in India
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Which Countries have the Highest Gold Reserves in 2022?
Which Countries have the Highest Gold Reserves in 2022?
Which countries have the highest gold reserves in 2022?
The world’s largest gold reserve holdings are in the United States. The next four nations in line for holding the most gold are Germany, Italy, France, and Russia. These five nations round up the top 5.
Why do Countries hold Gold Reserves?
Since the beginning of time, gold has been used as money, which eventually led to the creation of…
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#gold reserves#gold reserves by country#gold reserves by country 2021#gold reserved in US#gold reserves in Uk#gold reserves in India#gold reserves in Canada#gold standard#pot of gold#gold digger
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I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face
#maybe I'm just biased because the characters that this happens to tend to be some of my favorites but I think I'm onto something#these characters aren't allowed depth of emotion or complex inner worlds. once a character is fanonized as the 'ray of sunsine'#or the 'cinnamon roll' they cease to occupy any space outside of that role in fanon content. they're happy & silly & not much else#no matter how much depth they may actually have in canon.#popular fanon has a tendency to treat happiness & goodness like states without any emotional complexity.#emotional complexity is reserved for the anti-heroes & jerks-with-a-heart-of-gold you see.#atp 'X is a ray of sunshine' has begone to feel like code for 'I don't actually care about this character very much nor do I understand#their canon narrative so I'm just gonna ignore them 98% of the time. but hey they're really nice! that's something! anyways—'#this is about many characters but I particularly want to call out aang & nightcrawler / kurt wagner as two who get this the worst.#because christ the mischaracterization they get from people who never think about them outside of the 'uwu small bean' box is infuriating#also steven universe & miles morales. although it's not so bad for steven after suf#fandom bs#please pretend I typed 'begun' a few tags back
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the world is golden magic
#nature#nature photography#forest#woods#nature reserve#swedish#swedish nature#fall#autumn#golden#gold#golden light#gold light#trees#sunlight#sunshine#magical#magical forest#magical woods#fall colors#fall colours#autumn colors#autumn colours#autumn aesthetic#light#warm#warm colours#warm light#warm colors#beauty
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Gold hoarders laden with bags, boxes, and suitcases enter and leave the Federal Reserve Bank to deposit their hidden currency, March 10, 1933. In one day, they deposited $30 million (worth around $700 million today), hoping to escape the penalties that the government would exact on hoarders effective May 1. The U.S. was still on the gold standard at the time, and President Roosevelt felt that hoarding the stuff prevented it from increasing the money supply.
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#vintage New York#1930s#gold hoarding#Great Depression#New Deal#1930s economy#gold standard#money supply#Federal Reserve#Executive Order#March 10#10 March
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The countries that have the most gold
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Classicum Aureum Elementium.
The oldest gold artifacts in the world are from Bulgaria dating back to the 5ᵗʰ millennium BC
Gold artifacts probably made their first appearance in Ancient Egypt at beginning of the pre-dynastic period, at the end of the 5ᵗʰ millennium BC & the start of the 4ᵗʰ.
In the past, a gold standard was often implemented as a monetary policy. Gold coins ceased to be minted as a circulating currency in the 1930s, and the world gold standard was abandoned for a fiat currency system after the Nixon shock measures of 1971.
#gold#classic#element#atom#loop#trapcode#tao#after effects#shiny#motion#animation#gif art#egypt#bulgaria#artifacts#standard#federal reserve
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Gold Worth Double? Zoltan Speaks
Gold Worth Double? Zoltan Speaks
I'm just thinking out loud here but if Your name is Zoltan and you don't go Into fortune telling as a career I feel like you missed an opportunity So there's a new idea floating around Showing how gold could double in price And double pretty quickly I don't worry This isn't me making something up it Actually comes from a contributor for Credit Suisse so you need to know that There is a built-in…
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#gold#gold peg#gold price#gold price 2022#gold price 2023#gold price to double#gold reserve currency#gold reserves#gold stacking#gold standard#gold worth double#petrogold
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Here I am. The lone Gale x Minthara shipper.
#Hear me out ok#its about the soul crushing devotion#he would think he can change her/slowly realizing maybe she doesnt need to be changed#she just needs to calm down a little#while she's slowly getting over her reservations about not getting attached bc she's convinced hes gonna blow up#but god shes a VENGEANCE PALADIN#give me minthara absolutely hating and fucking spitful raging against Mystra#gale doesnt DO light-hearted romance#and also oh my god minthara's romance.....#'without lolth and the absolute i dont even know who i am. you do. i think.'#gales comments about how he's convinced she's got a heart of gold under her cold exterior#take me out#this is like half crack ship#half not
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@bardistraee's Avraham + @edgier-than-a-diamond's Allen. Bless them they are so patient with my shenanigans.
Yes René is in the background but this isn't about him. Look at how on fire that ogre is. Clearly it was all Avraham. What a legend.
Hopefully René learned a little bit about how to perform well as a thief from him c:
Bonus pic of the aftermath of the same fight because Allen hovering menacingly sends me. He sure does love doing that as a mage! Awesome support though.
Allen found a unique way to get my attention. Not sure if René disapproves or if he's just trying desperately not to laugh.
Nighttime Battahl. René maxed thief so I changed his vocation to archer. Poor Avraham had to be the sole melee...and tbh he absolutely killed it. Allen is unfortunately out of frame somewhere, but this was a still pretty cool shot.
I was luckily able to complete both pawns' quests this time! I did also keep them for like 22 in-game days though haha.
#dragon's dogma 2#i did mostly questing and attempted some pawn training for the past couple of sessions#also managed to empty most of my gold reserves so i need to do some farming#i need to kill some gore chimeras anyway bc i wasnt paying attention and now im out of black freakish mane rip#dd2 adventures#ps i see all the new people on the spreadsheet! i will be getting to them soonish <3
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I’m back to thinking about SJ avatar style, so get ready for some rambling.
CW: mentions of trauma and abuse via administered electric shocks
One thing’s stuck in my head about this particular AU of an AU. Leading up to the revolution where animatronics are granted rights, I would think one of the main driving forces behind that is animatronics discovering the ability to bend as well. Up until then, they’ve been treated as machines beneath humans. Not all humans can bend, but they are the sole beings who can. That is, until animatronics discover on their own that they have the ability to bend water, air, earth, and fire—lightning, metal, lava, and ice, every and any iteration of the four elements—just like humans can.
I don’t think it would take them long to discover that they are equivalent to humans in this manner. So in an effort to control the animatronics and hide their bending prowess to further the mindset that humans are above machines, chi blockers would be introduced. Maybe in this specific world, it’s a chip inserted into the animatronics that keeps them from connecting to the elements or figuring out if they even can bend. But nothing can ever be kept silent forever, and when word gets out about this process, advocation for animatronic rights begins to ramp up full throttle. You can only bury the truth for so long before someone else comes around and digs it up.
That’s all to say that I believe the extraction of these chi blocking chips, while severely dangerous but doable with the correct knowledge and force, is exactly what the daycare attendants learn. It starts with Eclipse enduring a terrible cruel shock from the owners for not responding to their call quick enough. What they don’t account for is how this continued abuse is just what he needs in order to dismantle the chip that’s kept him from an intrinsic part of himself since his creation.
In the shadows of the daycare one night, he unscrews the panel in the back of his head, finds the partially working chip, and rips it out.
He blacks out and comes to hours later, hooked up to a charging port and the owners screaming at him because they’ve had to close the daycare for the day due to his supposed incompetence. His fragile wires in the back of his faceplate are still exposed, but the humans make no mention of it, having no understanding of what’s happened or what he’s done.
And that sets into motion what few other animatronics have come to learn on their own: that the chip is removable, and something crucial has been kept from their reach for far too long.
I think there would be a more violent uprising. Those who regain their bending are still outnumbered, but their message reaches the ears of the people who do care, and it becomes a unity of animatronics and humans demanding equal rights be granted. Freedom is still an uphill battle, but it doesn’t escape their grasp.
Like the events of SJ, I imagine that Sun, Moon, and Eclipse still don’t break free until animatronic rights have been established, and the owners have to kick them out. But there’s a strong chance that prior to that, Eclipse removes the chi blocking chips in each of his brothers’ heads, a methodical surgery that comes with the unfortunate need to fry the things first before they can be removed. And wouldn’t you know it, he just so happens to be a firebender with the unshakable urge to use his ability to take back what they are all owed.
He’s not as precise with his fire, still new to it aside from the secret snatches of hours he’s practiced creating it with his hands. He nearly ends up scorching Sun’s delicate wires, something that has him even more afraid to try it again, especially on Moon, but they need this freedom. They need to know like he does what was stolen from them. They need to have it to be ready in case… just in case.
Moon takes to his waterbending like a duck to water. He does have a brief incident where he accidentally gets spooked and ices his hands and nearly panics, but Eclipse melts it right off with a heated flash of his palm. Sun’s practice is a little less than stellar in his eagerness, not for lack of want but because his bending doesn’t come right away. It doesn’t click like it does with the others, and it causes a deep frustration in him that he might not be a bender like them. His frustration and disappointment grow until one night during a practice session following a truly rough day, he claims that it’s just not going to work and in a rather rare show of deep upset, he kicks a stack of crates, wanting to just channel out some of that hurt in a harmless way.
The ball of fire that shoots from his foot lights the crates ablaze, and the three brothers have to quickly stamp out the fire before it can grow. As soon as it’s controlled and doused, Eclipse rounds on Sun with pure excitement that shows the flames of hellfire in his very eyes, and he clasps Sun’s shoulders and proudly tells him that that’s what he needs to channel his fire. He needs anger, he needs rage, just like Eclipse. That’s how he can bend. Eclipse will show him how.
Sun is… not enthused by this. He’s not angry; he was just frustrated. A small moment of anguish because of how he wants to have this connection with his brothers. Moon doesn’t need anger to waterbend. It just dances to his call like it’s meant to.
But with no one else to teach him and with Eclipse being so proud of Sunny for being just like him, proving that he’s right about this, Sun can’t say no. He begins to learn the way Eclipse wants him to, and he struggles to voice his discomfort at needing rage to kindle his fire. It’s why it doesnt come as a shock to him that his fire staggers and fails to remain bright and beautiful after the small incident.
Sun isn’t angry, not truly. He was made for love and compassion and justice, but not anger. His fire is never as brilliant as his older brother’s, and though Eclipse keeps pushing him and encouraging him in the only way he knows, his own frustration at Sun’s inability to progress is still just under the surface. He blames the owners, of course. They’re the ones holding Sun back. They must be, since they’re to blame for everything else.
When they are freed, it is no less rough. But Sun is exposed to a whole world of possibilities, and in the long spans of Eclipse’s absence as he fights to make them survive, Moon spars with and teaches Sun what he’s learned. To their surprise, Sun is able to apply it to his own bending, and together, they create a bond built on striving to use their bending to make the city a better place. They train endlessly so that one day, they can use it to show their strength in the police academy.
It’s the first of many walls that build between them and Eclipse. And it highlights the forces behind their bending that let them become in tune with their core elements. Slowly realizing that this will be the start of what separates them, and the first time Sun and Moon turn their bending on Eclipse without holding back is when they’re detectives and jumping out of range of his sizzling dark blue fire.
That’s when they’re certain there’s no turning back now. Eclipse has already burned the bridge between them and now uses the very tool that he taught them how to wield against his own family. He has become like those he hates, those he blames and faults for the city’s imperfection. He lusts for power and control, and when the old daycare is set ablaze in searing blue fire one pitch black night, it’s just another step in that direction. And wouldn’t it be ironic if he starts the blaze with an electrical fire, envisioning all those days spent under the fury of the owners’ controlled shocks and using those horrid memories to fuel his anger as lightning turns to flames.
The detectives are powerless to do anything but fight back, and it leaves horrible scars that are visible to no one but them.
No one, that is, until the vigilante comes around.
#sleuth jesters avatar style#I’m sorry you thought I was done talking about literally every possible AU of this series?#you thought wrong#next up: SJ but make them mers#kidding djksjfjdfkkd#do you think another reason Moon and Eclipse fight so much is because Moon’s core bending is centered on healing?#I think Sun would refuse to learn how to bend lightning because the traumatic memories from the daycare are too strong#whereas Eclipse sees it as taking back what’s his and reserving the brunt of that particular bending for those he despises the most#and as much as the vigilante infuriates him with every refusal of his offer#he never turns that lightning against them#it would be so easy with their waterbending#he might even threaten them without a word as he tosses sparks across his fingers#but he doesn’t use that against them because he still wants to draw them to his side#especially given their past surrounding Afton and how he used it to control them#doesn’t keep them free of his firebending though!#eclipse is like: this is different. :) don’t you need fire to refine gold?#sun who’s not only a firebender but actively dating the vigilante: RIP to u but im different#lumilite
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#aotv spoilers#ok you’re asking for my opinions let’s do it#i love louis!!!! im so proud of him and im so happy i got to watch him on his journey for so long and can’t wait for what’s to come for him#and i think my love for him and for his music and for my time in the fandím and for one d etc is what makes this a good watch and why i#liked it because otherwise i have my reservations to the movie and im not going to get into the babygate stuff#apart from the fact that louis trying to get freddie to hug him was extremely awkward and ive never seen less organic thing than the beach#scene and i find it funny they tried to push that as organic so hard#my issue is that it just had a potential to be a much better film is all sksmsk#it is good but it feels a bit rushed and kind of cheap in some ways and i get that’s the style of these biopics sometimes but#like it was such a shame the bg music was not really gold and was always exaggeratedly emotional because it made it cheesy and cheap and#kind of forced#i think it would have a great potential to get many people to say wow this is a strong talented guy and i think it is a great intro but i#think they undersold the movie so it’s not going to have a chance to reach an audience much wider than his current fanbase which is a shame#for his current fanbase it is a solidification and reiteration of his promo season and it is very clear where they want louis to stand and#what they want his image to be like and i think it’s absolutely amazing how they managed to show his growth as an artist and as a human and#and place him in a position where he’s now confident and secure and ready to embark on a new journey etc. although for the fans there’s#nothing new there and i think it’s worth considering how exactly they’re portraying and that they completely left out his relationships#aside from his family and the band#i think it’s important that it was noted he was undersestimated and pushed down and i think they made obvious how much he’s worked on#himself#i think it’s kinda clear they’re using it as a faith in the future promo with the new songs even though the doc ends with the end of the#tour#i think it’s interesting how many rainbow flags they chose to include without addressing the way his shows and fanbase look at all because#if i were from Gp id wonder what’s up with that esp when he only acknowledged the kmm project again#generally i think it’s a good watch that’s very transparent in what it’s trying to do for louis promo and image wise and it doesn’t tell#you anything new but it reminds you why you love this man so much while also leaving you a bit disappointed because this had a much#greater cinematic potential and a lot of it feels either rushed or underfinanced or forced and that’s a shame
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there's so many tunnels in switzerland there's like secret lairs and shit in that one mountain and also the giant hidden bitcoin mining farm they really should have someone investigate this shit.
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