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Iran: 907 tons of gold; why don't they just say fuck it, and back the Rial with gold/oil?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 22089462:MV8yMDA4MDExXzMzNzM3Nzk3XzdCNEIyOUFD] [quote:Anonymous Coward 11713342:MV8yMDA4MDExXzRGOTUxODUz] Iran "officially" (read: they'd be insane to declare everything they have!!) has 907 tonnes of gold. source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/224264.html That's 3x more than the UK (Cheers, Gordon Brown). It's value is, at todays gold price of $1780/ Oz: 1780*32.1 Oz/kilo = $57,000 per kilo 1000 kilos in a tonne. $57,000,000 per tonne. 57m * 907 = $51.7 bn Gross external debt in 2010 was $14.34 billion Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran [b]So, why not back the currency with oil or gold? [/b] Inflation problem solved. Currency collapse problem solved. First 'hard' currency in new world. ?????? thoughts ??????? [/quote] The debt being covered by gold is 1 thing, having the entire money supply covered by gold is another thing entirely (hence the gross external debt isn't really relevant in this particular discussion). [/quote]
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Iran "officially" (read: they'd be insane to declare everything they have!!) has 907 tonnes of gold.
source: [
link to www.presstv.ir
]
That's 3x more than the UK (Cheers, Gordon Brown).
It's value is, at todays gold price of $1780/ Oz:
1780*32.1 Oz/kilo = $57,000 per kilo
1000 kilos in a tonne.
$57,000,000 per tonne.
57m * 907 = $51.7 bn
Gross external debt in 2010 was $14.34 billion
Source: [
link to en.wikipedia.org
]
So, why not back the currency with oil or gold?
Inflation problem solved.
Currency collapse problem solved.
First 'hard' currency in new world.
??????
thoughts
???????
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