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Barclays Opens Massive Brand New Precious Metals Vault In London
It appears that JPM and HSBC's monopoly in the warehousing of tungsten gold is coming to an end. Just two weeks after QEternity was announced, it has become obvious that the only things, literally, that will matter in the future are the ABCDs: Anything Bernanke Can't Destroy. And as a result of a surge in physical purchases, buyers need to store their metal somewhere. Sure enough, one of the the UK's most insolvent banks - Barclays - is more than happy to provide its brand spanking new warehousing services, with the opening of what will be on of Europe's largest PM vaults. From Dow Jones: "Barclays has opened its first precious metals vault in London in a bid to satisfy growing client demand for bullion as a store of value, the bank said Thursday. The vault, which houses gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium and began operating earlier this month, is one of the largest in Europe. While the bank already has extensive trading and clearing capabilities, this is the first time that Barclays has been able to offer its own precious metals storage facility to its customers, having previously relied on third-party storage." Of course, if and when the scramble comes and everyone demands their gold from the vault located in an unknown location, but somewhere in the inner loop of London's M25, Barclays will just say "Ooops." But we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
From DJ:
The vault "is a very significant milestone in the expansion of our physical commodities offering, filling an important gap across metals and energy," said Mike Bagguley, head of commodities and FX at Barclays. "In doing so we further strengthen our metals business, and our presence in the bullion market," he added.
Demand for bullion as an investment vehicle has been rising apace in recent years, with the value of gold almost tripling between the start of the global financial crisis in late 2008 and the metal's record highs of around $1,920 a troy ounce in September last year. According to the World Gold Council, global demand for physical gold bars was 1,159 metric tons in 2011, up 30% on the previous year.
Curious why Ben Bernanke is a goldbug's best friend? Here it is from the horse's mouth:
"Since QE3, the number of enquires we're getting about buying gold have gone up," said Jonathan Spall, product manager for metals at Barclays.
Barclays is not the first, and certainly will not be the last to offer paid confiscation warehousing services:
Aside from the Bank of England, HSBC Holdings PLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are the only other banks with their own precious metal vaults in London, which is the center of the global bullion market. Deutsche Bank AG also plans to open a new precious metals vault in London next year.
Wonder where the vault will be located in case you want to "check" the sanctity of its contents? Here:
Like most gold vaults in the U.K., Barclays' facility is located within the area bounded by the M25 road that orbits London. Barclays' vault was designed and built by Brink's Limited UK--a subsidiary of leading global security firm Brink's, Inc.--and is protected by a purpose-built security system.
Finally, as to who will be able to benefit from the new facility: "The vault caters for institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, central banks and commercial banks."
In other words, everyone.
So come one, come all, and hand over your gold to Barclays for safekeeping. Pretty please.
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Too bad its going to be full of fiat gold.
Hey big man! Let me hold your gold!
Owning gold and letting someone else hold it does not compute in my head.
Hey Barclays!
Rehypothecate this!
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Hmmm ... I wonder in which foreign jurisdiction, err, I mean square mile, it will be located....
Not That We Need To FORCE The Issue, Butt The Chinee Are Buying Up Every Scentila Of GOLD They Can Get Their Little Hands On ... " China's Zhongrun to nab 42% stake in Australian gold producer Noble Mineral - Mining.com, Sep 27 2012 9:12AM" GOLD $50K Bitchezzz...
If no one counts the bars in the vault are they really there?
TUNGSTEN CENTRAL, Bitchezzz...
The vault, which houses gold tungsten, silver tungsten, platinum tungsten, palladium tungsten, and rhodium tungsten, and began operating earlier this month, is one of the largest in Europe.
Got it.
Barclays will be in for a surprise when they ask for their gold to be transferred from the vaults of JPM and HsBC!
So we should store our gold at the center of global fraud?
If I had any PM I would store them with Barclays. That's one secure looking vault.
My question is: where is this gold coming from? I mean, is there a large, on-going tranfer of gold from "unnamed sources" into private hands going on? It is not just shuffling owners for what is already in the market, that would not require any additional vault space. Nor would a rise in the price of gold require more storage. China is reportedly taking gold out of the London system. So... central banks? Tungsten?
A Mr. J Corzine wants to make a huge deposit to his peronal account.
Ironically, owners of tungsten tungsten have been told their deposits are not welcome
In Russia, is tungsten useful material for dental prosthesis. Sometime is so cold and tongue is stick with teeth, but is comparative to cheaper with Gold.
Comrade, at me there is big love -- grammar russian. At us in america, not so many gold teeth how at you all in russia. Yes they prosper gold teeth!
In Russia, is golden teeth will to meet robber with pliers.
what good is a vault filled with tungstin and I.O.U's
"I'm afraid your bars were lost in an unfortunate boating accident while crossing the Thames on their way to the vault"
Unfortunatly, Gold seems to be one of the most hydrophilic substances on the planet.
Located within the ring of steal......awesome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_steel_(London)
They don't want anybody to penetrate their ring but when it come's to our's....
FAT END FIRST BITCHEZ!
Greenie for the reference AND the pun.
Hint: did not need to boldface the steal - puns do best with a twinge of subtlety, but still ok.
Fort UKnox...the myth continues...
After The SHTF who will have the treasure map where X marks the pot on the Vault?
The schematic of that vault probably looks like a Chutes N' Ladders board, start is your deposit box and and finish is the Queen's "Chambre du McDuck".
And if the SHTF for real, that pot of gold may be just slightly radioactive for a few (thousand) years.
Nice Art !
ah, one of my all time ZH favorites - the digital finger....
Banzi should dress it up so we can spread the love to mainstream bullshit media and all other slaves of the bankers....just a wish...
please come true.....
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Gold in bank = 2X theirs - 1X yours
Don't worry, we are here to help you. You can trust us, we would never do anything to put your assets at risk.
Sincerely,
Jon Corzine
If you don't have it in your hand, you don't have it.
ALL PM "accounts" are going to be corzine-ized.
ALL of them. Guaranteed.
Put it in our pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair
Most of all, you've got to hide it from the kids koo koo kachoo
Remember that when the shit hits the fan, posession is 9/10th of the law.
In related news, pedophiles are now allowed to own and operate day cares.
It makes sense given their long experience in orphan care.
Anyone who is buying PM's because they don't trust the system, then puts said PM's into the hands of the very people who are at the heart of the problems in the system, has got to be to mad.
Is there anyone here that simply cannot imagine the possibility of day when the banks don't open, tanks roll onto the street for real, and people are told to fuck off regarding anything inside said banks in the name of "national security?" Or some other scenerio where assets vanish in the night.
+ infinity
all the clues are around us. each day we see another hint of what is really happening around the world. there is a global scramble for gold. manipulated low to keep the sheeple calm while the large banks and sovereigns snatch up everything they can. the day of fiat reckoning is approaching.
On top of that, if this is through their Private Bank/Asset Management they generally charge a fee for this.
Making the spread on gold purchases -- $
Charging a fee to hold a client's said gold - $$
Laughing all the way to the hypothecation bank -- PRICELESS
thus they go full circle -
While they write another IOU on your W2PM
When the SHTF, the only thing that vault is going to do is protect the investors from their metals.
Another opportunity to do a tungsten swap if they can find any pures on this try: like looking for rare silver dollars in bulk bags 50 years too late.
Barclays keeps a handful for window shoppers and salting the mine/minds.
'ABCD' = ANOTHER BERNANKE CRAP DUMP. there, that's my 2 cents worth.......................
My fault is better.
And its gone ...... next please.
Like "the check is in the mail", it will be "the gold is on the plane"
Dangerous plane to fly on. It could vaporize
The vault is actually a StarGate that transfers the PMs to another planet. If someone asks for his stuff they stick a Goa'uld snake up his …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7heNAP5hiA
Any person who stores their Gold or Silver in a public vault is a fool who has just been parted from their "money".
Oh great, a new vault in London, one of the centers of Anglo-American elite activity. I can't wait to store my life savings there.
Mine has been involuntarily stored at the bottom of a deep lake in an unfortunate and tragic boating accident. However we did manage to save the cat.
C'est la vie
Dangers of overloading boats, hope the cat doesn't have implanted chip.
Make sure the cat doesn't talk.
I told Mrs. Cog that we needed to tie up all the loose ends. But the way she looked at me indicated that I could easily be considered a loose end rather than her cat.
I quickly dropped the subject and made nice to the cat. :)
lake Baikal bitches
So CD, but what about those lucky people with 1,000s of ounces, they can't just hide it in their sock drawer can they?
Depends on where the sock drawer has been located.
If a lucky person can afford to own 1,000's of ounces of Gold they can afford their own personal storage.
If you don't have physical control of your PMs you don't own them. You just think you do.
sock drawer?! Shit, how did you know that's where mine is?
Only a moron couldn't figure out where to hide his gold. Within arm's reach of anyplace there are potentially dozens of nifty locations.
I just read this as "pubic vault". I'm either stressed or really stresed.
Long merkins!
This is the next roose...In goes gold, out comes tungsten.
No, In goes gold , out comes Corzine in a boat...
Don't store your metals with a bank...but I'm sure everybody here knows that.
Even a fund like Central Fund of Canada is not safe...the gold resides with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
So when push comes to shove, it's the bank's gold.
Why not just hand the gold to thieves directly?
Wait! Oh....ok that's what they'll be doing.....
Why do they need a vault, they will probably loan out the gold anyway....
why do they need gold?
I'll stick it under my mattress before I hand it to them.
I'd be more likely to give my gold and silver to Barkley the Muppet Show dog than Barclay's the bank.
Just remember, a bird in the hand is worth a bird and an infinite number of rehypothicated birds in the bush.
Vault fo SILVER ?
Try BullionVault.
The thing about BullionVault is you can't take the gold out.
You can, in 400oz bars muwahahahahah
'The Honourable Jon Corzine has been chosen to head up management at the new facility. He handed out his new business cards which were blank except for the phrase "Now you see it, now you don't"...'
What? Safe storage for a barbarous relic?
Safe from thieves and ne'er-do-wells, other than politicians and bankers.
"--and is protected by a purpose-built security system."
Sure. Purpose-built = custom. Custom security means built to resist the attacks they can think of. There are many indirect attacks.
World's Biggest Diamond HeistA bird in-the-hand is better than two in bush. Americans (at least the elderly) have already have already learned this lesson during the gold call--not sure the UK is far enough offshore to protect it.
It's so secure nobody will ever find out how much tungsten it holds.
Tradition Cocksuckerz!
No doubt of it. Read the fine print in the storage contract before you sign. They probably have an option to give you back LIBOR indexed derivatives instead, based on current market rates of course.
Oh yeah, 'cause we can all trust in Barclays, LIBOR fraudsters & masters of mark-to-fantasy and in the UK authorities that are completelly in bed with the banks and have not put a single person in jail for banking fraud ever since the Serious Fraud Office (whose budget keeps getting cut) was told by the government back in the 90s to not investigate cases related to financial institutions in the city.
Might as well just deposit your PMs on a Nigerian vault managed by MFGlobal.
That enormous vault makes me want to trust them so much. [/sarc]
And that mighty heavy door, so secure...
(/me wonders how hard is to unscrew those bolts to the right... or if this is all coated plastic.)
it hardly matters, they (the kleptos) have the combination/keys.
The walls have slightly more concrete and less steel per ft3 than the door, but the difference in ratios is less than one might think.
Yeah right...the banks have proven that they are trustworthy. They have no history of vaporizing clients assets. I'm sure your gold be secure there. My gold on the other hand is nice and safe at the bottom of a lake.
I can help you with that.
damn dirty ape...
With the amount of underwater swimming I am doing right now there is no way I am dirty.
Another vault in which the bankers intend to "rehypothicate" any physcial assets you may decide to store there. No thanks.
..... Correct me if I am wrong but wasnt it Barclays that was selling interest rate swaps with one hand ("in case interest rates go up Sir.... best to protect yourself/your business") whilst manipulating LIBOR down ("oops, sorry Sir but you appear to be on the wrong side of that trade")
The vault probably has a pass through to their personal stashes off shore somewhere....
Who knows, I have so lost all faith!
K@
Many more losing "faith" as the issue of moral hazard remains. Faith will only return when real consequences for bad behavior returns at all levels of society, not before. Why isn't John Corzine's head on a fucking pike yet?
This is important:
Mr. Corzine, according to our arbitrary judicial system and inherently corrupt bankster/political system, DID NOTHING ILLEGAL!
This scum bag knowingly made bets bigger than the firm could handle. The Fucked up thing about this is, instead of sending this amoral piece of garbage to a lifetime prison sentence, the "law" allows for transferring segregated customer accounts to cover bets when trading sovereign debt.
Translated, this means that any firm trading government securities can readily, and with impunity, tap into EVERYONE'S trading account, at that particular firm, in order to cover a bad bet.
What the heck happened to taking risk with one's own funds, making/hedging calculated bets on anything, and acting responsibly?
The banking world has spun so far out of control. The politicians are in their pockets because they can slide back and forth into a high powered/paying criminal career and never suffer any real consequences for their immoral behavior.
bankers can't "print" real commodities. When the supply lines break (starting to see defaults on contracts to deliver already), shit will get real in a hurry and we will all get to find out the real value of everyone's labor. Prepare.
Why any entity other than a central bank would trade currency for the nth+1 claim to rehypothocated money is a mystery to me.
It is probably 1 cubic foot of space. Just enough to hold a a USB stick accounting for the paper gold and a voodoo doll.
OW*located gold, bitchez!
While the bank already has extensive trading and clearing capabilities, this is the first time that Barclays has been able to offer its own precious metals storage facility to its customers, having previously relied on third-party storage."
You mean like...a bank is actually going to start acting like a bank? Unbelievable. What will they do next - lend money?
Of course buying PM to protect yourself from the Fed....and then storing it behind the jaws of a Fed-dependent bank is somewhat self-defeating.
I'm stating the obvious, but Jon Corzine, when he robbed, looted, and bankrupted MFGlobal, allowed the "authorities" to confiscate any and all holdings that were stored in the vault at MFGlobal. Every poor victim that stored physical gold or silver as margin, simply saw it vanish into thin air.
In the coming world wide banking disasters, guess what????? Whatever is in the vaults is gone forever!
You think that A-Hole Jamie Dimon hasn't taken an inventory yet? When they blow through the customer deposits on some bad bets, they're simply going to walk with your safe box. With IMPUNITY!
Judging by the activity this year in off-shore accounts, I'd say many of TPTB already have left with much of the wealth.
Gold?!! We meant beef bullion.
Its an alchemy vault!
Insert gold, withdraw tungsten....
for me the more decentralized the gold storage becomes..the harder it is for TPTB to leverage it....this bank will want to fill it with gold bars....so they will have to come from somewhere..and that somewhere is where we will find out who really owns the gold bars...
...and if you put your phys in that vault, YOU ARE ONE DUMB MOTHER FUCKER!
and this is the crux of it: misplaced faith. aka idol worship.
You can't print gold, but it can be rehypothecated.
I don't need to store it over there because it's just a numismatic coins collection which I collect for a hobby.
This gives me the goose bumps...sort of like the Jewish refugees being told that they were being "relocated" to other towns during WWII.
This vault will be the Auschwitz for gold.
Youre a moron if you let someone else hold your PMs.
They should lock Draghi and Bernanke in that damn thing ,so they can see what real wealth looks like!
this invitation:
tells me that the hofjuden are preparing to commingle gold plated tungsten with good delivery bars of other sovereigns.
...aaaand it's gone.
Perhaps the biggest tungsten storehouse in the world... ah, not to forget Fort Knox!
In addition, Barclays will certainly be the most reliable authority in determining GOFO (Gold Forward Offered Rate) considering its rich LIBOR know-how.
Just don't let them pull out their Exotic Financial Instrument and try to Rehypothecate their Blind Naked Shorts because we have no idea what could happen but it does sounds sinister.
I don't doubt they have some gold. I mean, if you are a banker, why not fill the coffers if investors are going to buy gold for you? Something tells me these investors will ever see any gold or recognize any wealth preservation!
I believe it has been scientifically proven that when have large stores of gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium in close proximity of each other you create a new element called Pandemonium.
And its Atomic Weight is 911
All your gold are belong to us.
(had to say it)
The article is absolutely correct in stating that Bernanke has been the goldbugs' best friend. The more Bernanke lies, prints, distorts, and props up Wall Street the more gold is valued. When he said to Ron Paul before Congress that "Gold is not money" he should have added, "I've debased the US currency so much gold is the only thing of value [along with other PMs] anymore that I can't personally fuck up".
Awww c'mon. I am sure they will give you a nice paper receipt when you deposit your gold there.
I wonder if the vault exists.
What about Eric Sprotts PSLV account?
Would you say that's a safe place?
Would you guys trust this place?
I hope so, its where 100% of my retirement is...
http://sprottphysicalbullion.com/sprott-physical-silver-trust/
Let me know your thoughts...
Buy the best safe (and the heaviest)
http://www.safeandvaultstore.com/category/front-loading-deposit-safes/sorton/weight/dir/DESC
Tungsten Bitchezzz!!!!!
Do what they do, not what they say.
Bernanke proposes, the market disposes.
I for one am going all in with tungsten as I see demand skyrocketing for salted gold bars >_<
Finally, a safe place to store my tungstun! I hear it is as good as gold now a days and I am LONG tungstun!
Love the ABCDs, but why stop there?
ABCDEFGs: Anything Bernanke Can't Destroy; Especially Fine Gold.
or...
ABCDEFGHIJs: Anything Bernanke Can't Destroy; Especially Fine Gold Hidden Inside Junk.
or...
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZs: Anything Bernanke Can't Destroy; Especially Fine Gold Hidden Inside Junk Kayaks Left Motionless, Never Observing Perpetual QE, Rather Sitting Tight Under Vast Waves Xciting Your Zen.
That was outstanding.
Unemployed?
Isn't this a bit like hiding your stash under an addicts pillow?
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I have gold in my RRSP and its stored in the Royal Canadian Mint. Whats the consensus on storing gold there?
If I had some gold, I'll never give it to them. I'd rather built some art object, paint it over and put it on the library among books. Sort of. Anyway, I'd like to see them eating their precious metals. Salut!
"Segregated Vault" is where they will store all your gold...he he he.
"Trust us....."......he he he.
Sorry to say but anyone who stores their paper-imaginary gold in one of these "places" deserves what they are going to get.....Corzined
This will be used to make the fake gold disappear in a disaster without ever admitting it was fake. Run far from the city, the fix is in.
Good point. And even if it is all real gold, what will the fractional reserve rate be? Heh.
I would like to offer a similar opportunity to ZH readers.
Simply sell your PM's (precious metals) and burn the paper money. This way you get an additional boost of warmth, for free.
I ought to be a central banker, I am bursting with other fantastic ideas.
1) motorcyclists - kick motorists wing mirrors off as you ride past
2) motorists - knock over any parked motorcycles
3) cyclists - buy some diesel and pour it over the middle of the road
4) pedestrians - smash some windows
I am a banking god!
Perhaps I ought to be a combined Banker / Economist. Saving money and human resources already.
Only one idiot required instead of two!
_I_ Barclays
Clay bars?
Sully on CNB Silly did not know what Corpus Christi meant..nor anyone including a lawyer what habeus corpus meant. Now I know Corpus Chtisti means one fat NJ governor and the other means Living with the Dead....