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Old 05-10-2011, 21:40   #11
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Re: Financial Meltdown

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
Well, yes he might have stopped us from joining the Euro, but he DID sell all the gold reserves at the bottom of the market
Just think how much better off we'd all be, if he'd waited a bit, and heeded all the advice.

Goldfinger Brown’s £2 billion blunder in the bullion market - Times Online

The fecklessly humourless Scot could have sat cross-legged in his flat in Number 11, stuffing the nation's gold reserve into those pre-paid envelopes, addressed to We Buy Any Gold.
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