Gold follows the man throughout its entire history and was always connected to murders and intrigues. Ancient civilization of Inca called gold “the sweat of the sun”, while the Egyptians called it “breaths of gods”. Romans called it “the weapon of war”, and Napoleon covered Paris with it, while the Nazis needed it to conquer Europe. Magic of gold is integrated in our subconscious. No object in the world is a symbol for wealth and power as gold.
Gold even today shines with undiminished glow and represents the most important product in the financial market, where thanks to fast manipulations you can earn up to a billion dollar in one day. However, most gold with which is being traded is only on paper… Some feel that behind 100 ounces on the stock market that is one ounce of real gold, so the is a legitimate question asked to the government: where is the gold from places such a Fort Knox? In Western world gold is, beside DEPOSITS OF OIL, is considered as the main pillar of sovereignty of a country and the foundation of economy and war industry, because it can be rightfully said that who has gold has the power.
Switzerland national bank announced for the first time where it keeps its 1.040 tons of gold, a third of which is abroad- in Great Britain and Canada. Since the Cold War several European central banks invested its gold reserves abroad in fear of invasion. Switzerland government recently said that nationalistic Switzerland national party collected a lot of signatures to call a referendum in which they were supposed to vote about the prohibition to central bank to sell gold reserves or to keep the abroad. In the last ten years Russian central bank acquired 570 metric tons of gold. That is the amount that is almost three times heavier than the American Statue of Liberty and places Russia among largest world buyers of gold. Portal Business insider brings text about countries that currently have the largest deposits of gold in their central banks. Central banks in the world last year bought 534.6 tons of gold. World council of gold declared that in the world there is in total 31,671.4 tons of gold in reserves, and made a list of 10 countries with greatest reserves of gold in the world.