
“Less than 1% of the world’s gold is mined in India. The rest comes from somewhere else. Still, India can’t get enough. It is the largest consumer of gold in the world, buying nearly a third of production in recent years. Some estimates say that 10% of all gold is held in India. Indians save roughly 30% of their income, as opposed Americans, who save 5%. Plus, Indians are getting richer all the time. Once a very poor country, the rich and middle classes now outnumber the poor in this nation of 1.2 billion. The country has the sixth-largest economy in the world.”
http://lfb.org/today/indias-gold-mania/
Related posts:
The Neoliberal Financial Skim
Michael Scheuer: Obama & Brennan - A new American-killing “Murder Inc”?
Bill Bonner: Confessions of a Former Child Laborer
Criminalizing Americans for Government Profit
Martin Luther King, the White Rose, and the NSA
The Permanent Overclass's Propaganda System: A Century In The Making
Everything Created Digitally Is Nearly Free--Including Money
The Best Quality Of Life In The World: Residency & Citizenship In Austria
Jeffrey Tucker: An Empire in Panic
The “Social Contract” Is a Fraud; Anyone Enforcing It Is A Criminal
Michael Scheuer: On Syria, Our interventionists ensure America’s luck is running out
The Security State’s Reaction to Snowden Shows Why It’s Doomed
Bill Bonner: How to Disappear Without a Trace
Larken Rose: The Complete and Undeniable Truth
"Ferguson Effect": Increased Police Lethality, More Prosecutorial Deference