“When Brown decided to dispose of almost 400 tonnes of gold between 1999 and 2002, he did two distinctly odd things. First, he broke with convention and announced the sale well in advance, giving the market notice that it was shortly to be flooded and forcing down the spot price. This was apparently done in the interests of ‘open government’, but had the effect of sending the spot price of gold to a 20-year low, as implied by basic supply and demand theory. Second, the Treasury elected to sell its gold via auction, which frequently achieved a lower price than the equivalent fix price. It seemed almost as if the Treasury was trying to achieve the lowest price possible for the public’s gold. It was.”
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