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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1615429, member: 41665&quot;]See Page 1 of the WSJ today. Page 1 Top article: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595704578239773128108906.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595704578239773128108906.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595704578239773128108906.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;The Treasury could be forced to revisit proposals it considered during the 2011 borrowing-limit crisis, most of which it said were unworkable.</b><u> <b>These included selling assets such as gold </b></u>and mortgage-backed securities to raise funds... {...} One thing the WH says it won&#039;t do is pusue a somewhat fanciful idea of minting a $1 trillion platinum coin and depositing it at the Fed&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note that order: first Gold, then mortgage-backed securities. Gold: more liquid and less-valuable? Or Gold: antithesis of Dollar-crap Paper...a fantasy to defend at all costs? </p><p>Note also the contrast in options: a &quot;reconsidered proposed&quot; Gold sale with the &quot;fanciful idea&quot; of the Trillion $ coin. </p><p>So consider the Gold Sale a (hypothetical but) serious option now. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>In mid-/Late February: IF the Treasury announces an intent for a Gold Sale (5-10% of US Reserves), what effect will this have on POG? </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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