There is a well-known saying in the global financial community that money is not gold, but gold is naturally money.This sentence is enough to illustrate the status of gold in the global financial community, and at the same time, it proves the irreplaceable role and status of gold as a precious metal in the history of human development.Why is the United States the only superpower in the world?
It's simple, because the US dollar is the only settlement currency in the world!
And what is the core of the dollar?
To put it bluntly, it's gold!
Although gold has withdrawn from the circle of currencies decades ago, no one can deny that even if gold is no longer a currency, no matter what kind of currency, it is not as good as gold!
Why is the US dollar the only settlement currency in the world?
Isn't that because the United States has enough gold reserves?
If you don't have enough gold reserves, who in the world will recognize your dollars?
Last year, that is, in 2018, the country with the world's largest gold reserves was still the United States, with gold reserves of up to 8,200 tons!
If you take into account the 6,400 tons of gold reserves kept in the United States by other countries, the amount of gold in the United States alone is as high as 14,600 tons!
In fact, in the middle of the last century, that is, just after the end of World War II, the United States' gold reserves were as high as 21,800 tons!
The other name of the US dollar is "US dollar", which is enough to prove that the US dollar is actually held up by gold.Therefore, although gold is not a currency, it is the most "hard" hard currency in the world!
And not only the United States, but also those developed countries in Europe, such as Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other countries, are among the top ten countries in the world in terms of gold reserves, and these countries are all developed countries without exception.In particular, the gold reserves of France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands account for more than 65% of their foreign exchange reserves.In other words, the foreign exchange reserves of these four developed European countries are dominated by gold!
And the gold reserves of the United States also account for 75% of its foreign exchange reserves.What does this mean?
Quite simply, among these old economic powers in Europe and the United States, gold is still the most important "currency margin".This is true for the state, and the same is true for the consortium.As mentioned earlier, the core business of a consortium must be the banking industry, but how can the bank be big?
In fact, it is very simple, that is, as long as your bank has enough gold reserves, then your bank will have enough anti-risk ability, as long as your bank has enough anti-risk ability, then it will attract more depositors to your bank deposit, and more people will be attracted to your bank for loans, so that your bank will develop rapidly.To put it bluntly, what banks need most is also gold reserves!
Central banks need gold reserves, and just as large commercial banks need gold reserves.No bank would dislike its own bank with large gold reserves.Counting the major banking groups in the world, whether it is Citibank Group, UBS, HSBC, or American Bank Group, Mellon National Bank Group, their internal gold reserves are very sufficient.Especially in some banking groups in the United States, the gold reserves of the Federal Reserve are even placed in the underground vaults of these banks!
Gold reserves are the confidence and heritage of major banks!
Since Yang Jing wants to develop his own consortium, the necessary gold reserves must not be missing.Therefore, if the remaining gold in his hand is not for extremely special circumstances in the future, Yang Jing will definitely not sell it to the outside world.Although gold is not a currency, it is the most popular thing in the world's major banks, in contrast, what real estate, what gems, diamonds, what antique art, its value preservation performance is far inferior to gold, and its popularity in major banks is far less than gold!
Quite simply, antiques are worth a fortune, right?
Precious, right?
But if you pledge a famous painting that you bought for $20 million to a bank as collateral, the bank can mortgage you 15 million to be considered charity, even if it is only worth 10 million dollars or even less dollars, you will not have a problem at all.Because the bank said that your painting can only be worth so much money.What?
Are you not convinced?
If you're not convinced, don't go to my bank to mortgage, there are other banks outside, you go to them to mortgage, and see how much those people can give you!
If you can have more than me, that's weird!
But gold is different, now a ton of gold can be worth about 40 million US dollars, if you take 500 kilograms of gold to the bank as collateral, if the bank gives you less than 20 million US dollars, you can definitely directly beat him to death!
Gold as collateral to go to the bank as collateral, that will definitely not give you a discount!
Some banks will even give you more!
(PS: Lao Mo is talking about foreign banks, and domestic banks are not in this ranks.) ）That's the charm and power of gold!
It is no exaggeration to say that if Yang Jing is willing to sell the more than 300 tons of gold in his hand now, he can exchange for a huge amount of cash of more than 12 billion US dollars in minutes.But Yang Jing would never do this.He's not stupid, and he's not short of money now, so a fool would sell all this gold!
With so much gold, if you put it in your own bank as a reserve, then what you can do is definitely worth more than $120 billion!
That's why fools and brain-dead people would do this kind of thing of throwing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds!
And as the amount of gold available on the planet is dwindling, until a new hard currency is found that can completely replace gold, gold will only become more and more valuable – a universal truth."
I can't sell this gold anymore, and if I have the opportunity in the future, I will find more gold to fill the vault of my bank."
Yang Jing changed his posture and thought to himself in his heart.It may be that the change of posture alarmed Gege, Gege's breathing suddenly became a little disordered, and after a while, the girl opened her eyes and muttered in a low voice: "Yang Jing, what time is it?"
Why don't you sleep yet?
”Yang Jing smiled slightly, attached himself and kissed Gege's forehead, and said in a low voice: "I can't sleep a little, so I just want to think about something."
It's okay, you don't have to worry about me, I'll fall asleep when I'm sleepy for a while.You'd better go back to sleep.Be obedient" "Hmm" Gege answered in a daze, and as soon as he turned over, he hugged one of Yang Jing's arms and slowly fell asleep.was hugged by the arm, and Yang Jing couldn't bear to wake up Gege again, so he simply lay down.The warm quilt made Yang Jing a little confused, so he simply stopped thinking about the belongings in the storage space, but let his thoughts fly around for a while, and he didn't know what he was thinking, anyway, he quickly fell asleep in a daze.After getting up the next day, Dad Yang had already bought breakfast outside, which was Yang Jing's favorite fritters and tofu brain.Order a very tender tofu brain, put braised soup, coriander, sesame paste, leek flowers, and then pour a big spoonful of red chili oil, with fried golden fritters, take a bite of the fritters and drink a mouthful of tofu brain, that taste, even for the gods to do not change!
Gege stayed in Yanjing during this time, and she was also very interested in this bite, but she, like Yang's mother, was not very spicy, so this bowl of chili oil was all cheaper than Yang Dad and Yang Jing.After eating and drinking, I went downstairs to find that Clark and John had started the car early and were warming the car, Yang Jing and Gege got into the car, and Clark drove directly to Yang Jing's grandfather's house.Yang Jing's grandfather and grandmother's health is now better than Yang Jing expected, Yang Jing's grandfather used to be a typical Alzheimer's patient, but now he speaks clearly, and the problem of the back of the ear that has plagued his old man for decades has now been completely solved.If you don't say it, no one will believe that this old man in his eighties had undergone a very dangerous craniotomy nine years ago, and he was an old man with severe trauma to his right prefrontal lobe.As for the grandmother who used to walk with the word "no" to describe her, now her complexion is better than Yang Jing's grandfather, the most important thing is that the old lady is now walking is called a "tiger and tiger", so that no one will think that this old lady is eighty years old, you say that she is less than seventy this year, nine out of ten people believe it, and the remaining one will definitely think that this old lady is only sixty years old this year, and her grandparents' health is good, which is what makes Yang Jing the happiest.And according to Gege, Gege's grandmother's current situation is similar to that of her own grandmother, she is obviously twenty years younger, so how can other old men and old ladies who are about the same age as them be expressed by a "envy"?
The little sister Li Yinuo has been on winter vacation, this girl will be eleven years old after the New Year, and now the children are developing early, this little girl has already had a faint rhythm to enter the rebellious period, that is really a cat and a dog are disgusted, but Gege is very fond of this little sister, and he played all morning with this girl, and I don't know how these two sisters-in-law, who obviously have an age gap, can get together and have such a good time.Because my grandfather and grandmother's health improved unexpectedly, my uncle put his main energy on his small company these days, not to mention that my uncle's shift in the focus of his work made the company's situation immediately improve.Originally, Yang Jing wanted to introduce a few businesses to his uncle, and even instigated his uncle to change careers, but his uncle had never made up his mind before.However, at lunch today, my uncle took the initiative to change careers, mainly because the competition in the area he is running now is too strong, and he has not paid much attention to the company in recent years, so even if the company has recovered significantly, my uncle is beginning to prepare for other industries.Regarding his uncle's thoughts, Yang Jing naturally welcomed him with both hands and feet.Although my uncle's cultural level is not very high, my uncle has been in the society for 30 years, and his skills in all aspects have long been exercised.And the uncle who is only forty-three years old this year is the most golden age in a man's life, so since the uncle plans to change careers, Yang Jing definitely doesn't mind letting his uncle's business make it bigger.And Yang Jing also has a preliminary plan for what to let his uncle do.ps: Bow and thank "Jiraiya ¥" and "Lonely Heart" for each 100 tips!