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China's Largest Conglomerate Buys Building Housing JPMorgan's Gold Vault
In what is the most remarkable news of the day, which has so far passed very quietly under the radar, Fosun International, China's largest private-owned conglomerate which invests in commodities, properties and pharmaceuticals also known as "Shanghai's Hutchison Whampoa", announced in a statement filed just as quietly with the Hong Kong stock exchange, that it had purchased JPM's iconic former headquarters, the tower built by none other than David Rockefeller, at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza for a measly $725 million.
Here is Bloomberg described the transaction:
Over the past year, other Chinese developers and wealthy investors have been buying real estate in the U.S.
China Vanke Co., the biggest homebuilder listed in mainland China, said in February it joined a residential real estate venture in San Francisco. The families of Zhang Xin, co-founder of Soho China Ltd. (410), the biggest developer in Beijing’s central business district, and Brazilian banking billionaire Moise Safra this year bought a 40 percent stake in New York’s General Motors Building.
The landmark 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and built in the 1950s, was once the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank. Rockefeller, as head of the bank’s building committee, selected the site and oversaw its construction.
JPMorgan intends to relocate about 4,000 employees, most of the people who work in the 60-story skyscraper, to other New York locations, Brian Marchiony, a spokesman, said in August. JPMorgan occupies about half of its space.
None of this is particularly newsworthy What is, however, is what Zero Hedge exclusively reported back in March, namely that the very same former JPM HQ at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza is also the building that houses the firm's commercial gold vault: incidentally, the largest in the world.
What do we know about 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza. Well, aside from the fact that the 60-story structure, built in the 1950s, was the headquarters of the once-legendary Chase Manhattan corporation, and which when it was built was the world's sixth tallest building, not much.
So we set off to learn more.
To learn more, we first went to the motherlode: the Landmarks Preservation Commission, whose report on 1 CMP describes everyone one wants to know about this building and then much more, such as that:
One Chase Manhattan Plaza combines three main components: a 60-story tower, a 2½ acre plaza, and a 6-story base, of which 5 floors are beneath grade.
So the old Chase HQ, once the stomping grounds of one David Rockefeller, and soon to be the other half of JPMorgan Chase, has 5 sub-basements, just like the NY Fed...
Reading on:
Excavations, said to be the largest in New York City history, reached a depth of 90 feet
Or, about the same depth as the bottom-most sub-basement under the NY Fed...
But then we hit the jackpot:
Originally constructed with white marble terrazzo paving and enclosed by a solid parapet of white marble travertine that was personally selected by Bunshaft in Tivoli, Italy, the L-shaped plaza levels the sloping site and conceals six floors of operations that would have been difficult to fit into a single floor of the tower, including an auditorium seating 800 [and] the world’s largest bank vault.
And there you have it: the JPM vault, recommissioned to become a commercial vault, just happens to also be the "world's largest bank vault."
Digging some more into the curious nature of this biggest bank vault in the world, we learn the following, courtesy of a freely available book written by one of the architects:
On the lowest level was the vault, which rested directly on the rock - the "largest bank vault in the world, longer than a football field." It was anchored to the bedrock with steel rods. This was to prevent the watertight, concrete structure from floating to the surface like a huge bubble in the event that an atomic bomb falling in the bay would blow away the building and flood the area.
In other words, the world's biggest bank vault, that belonging to the private Chase Manhattan empire, and then, to JPMorgan, was so safe, the creators even had a plan of action should it sustain a near-direct hit from a nuclear bomb, and suffer epic flooding (such as that from Hurricane Sandy).
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So, what the real news of today is not that JPM is selling its gold vault, we knew that two months ago, or that it is outright looking to exit the physical commodities business, that too was preannounced. What is extremely notable is that in one very quiet transaction, China just acquired the building that houses the world's largest gold vault.
Why? We don't know. We do know that China's gross gold imports from Hong Kong alone have amounted to over 2000 tons in the past two years. This excludes imports from other sources, and certainly internal gold mining and production.
One guess: China has decided it has its fill of domestically held gold and is starting to acquire gold warehouses in the banking capitals of the world.
For now the reason why is unclear but we are confident the answer will present itself shortly.
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Personally I will be ecstatic when China does go on the Gold Standard, even if that does require me to learn How to read those funny symbols.
Now they can demand delivery or else they'll dump all their treasuries.
THAT'S why Jim Rogers moved to Singapore... Do you think Chinese military will guard that area... you know like how American troops guard oil in Iraq...?
But kinda weird... Why didn't the Chinese just build a bigger one... or did they?
It's a FOB.
Gold vaults in world banking capitols? Must be preparing for a gold backed world reserve currency.
How about this scenario:
China moves its real physical into 1 CMP.
They agree to lend it to NY Fed for audit purposes in return for being allowed to make massive purchases of US assets with Chinese held paper.
It's plausible but it makes the assumption that the US would willingly engage in miltech transfer which they wont, and that the Chinese believe that their property rights will be respected when push comes to shove.
Unless there's something going on behind the scenes like the US literally having a killswitch on the Chinese leadership, this theory doesnt hold up too well.
For some strange reason, I don't think they will be disposed towards keeping any of their gold in the US,
They could put a pretty rifle range down there, though - the noise would never disturb the neighbors.
It went for a paltry $725m because the vault is empty...
Duh!
Maybe they're going to keep their gold in the US, just like Germany...after all, we're such trustworthy custodians.
when they go down to the vault, they are in for a surprise
Chinese Now Can BUY All US GOLD And Not Have
To Give Their Game Away.
Just Stash It Right Here Until The Time Is Right
And The Price Is Right ... $50K ...
G E N I U S !!!
China is paying for Chase building with US Treasury Bond, which is on Chinese internal books as having long term value = 0
So 'real cost' of building in China's terms is 0, building is free
China gets rent and use of building for short- to medium-term - so profit and win for China
China estimates 40% chance of future US seizure of all Chinese assets in USA ... assets mostly bought for 'free' with marked-to-zero US Treasury bonds
When Chinese assets are seized, China gets to trumpet to the world that US is confirmed as thieving government with no rule of law, that cannot be trusted (world half thinks that already) ...
So US building confiscation creates global win for China, soon to be trusted global business leader in place of the USA
Perfect Chinese plan
meh
America has the most productive economy in the world.
They could buy huge swaths of that economy with some of their gold when gold is revalued.
Sure.... sure, We be happy to house a bunch of your gold here in the good ol USA.
It will be right nice and plenty safe.
Perhaps China could just sell say 1/10 of their gold for ownership of 1/2 of US industry after the gold revaluation.
Barry would probably be all over that given his marxist roots.
Desperate times call for despotic measures.
The best part will be to listen to Barry berate everyone for the crash after he has run the whole show off the cliff.
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p.s. in the comment 2 blocks above I said "They could buy huge swaths of that economy with some of their gold when gold is revalued." I mean "China could buy huge swaths of that economy with some of their gold when gold is revalued."
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http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/gold-us-sovereign-coup-detat-and.html
http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/gold-backed-global-sdr-hegelian.html
http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/brics-currency-gold-and-debt-based.html
And...http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/imf-wealth-smearing-west-to-east.html
Read up on China "Special Enterprise Zones" here in the U.S.
My last count was about 60 of them.
These allow Chinese to set up shop on U.S. soil w/Chinese laws. No EPA for example.
Bloomberg, CNBC et all found this unnewsworthy...
I @#$%ing LOVE Zerohedge
That does seem a bit cheap. Wonder how much of the building is empty, besides the gold vaults? Maybe they are going to do a condo conversion on the top 2/3 of the building and sell them to investors (suckers) in Asia?
Perhaps they bought the vault because they are getting frustrated by the slow rate of withdrawing German gold from FRBNY (matched only by the even slower rate at which Germans are permitted withdrawals) - with a tunnel bewteen the two vaults they are no longer constrained by the 5 ton or so limit of an armored car (which are rather conspicuous if you start running them in shifts to speed up withdrawals).
This is very dodgy, a gold-vault, under a steel-framed building?
Not if it is an ACTUAL vault (as opposed to a vault door)- since it would have at least 1/2 million cubic feet of structural steel and over 8 million cubic feet of high strength concrete in the outer walls to be the size of football field and the minimum ASTM F1247/F1090 spec for a real vault. You could fly planes into the building all day long and practice "pulling it", and it would be like watching BHO trying to smack down a young Mike Tyson in a boxing ring. That thing wouldn't be "blobbing up" (or going anywhere else) even in the event of nuke in the neighborhood, if it "is" what they say it "is".
This is obviously in exchange for China to NOT dump Treasuries.
Possession, its 9/10ths of the law. And yes, of course any gold that may or may not be in the vaults (or belong to someone else) are a part of the deal.
“Possession, its 9/10ths of the law”
True, but I don’t see them moving that building to Shanghai.
On second thought, they just might figure out a way to do that.
On third thought, they can build a skyscraper in a little over two weeks, so why would they bother?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajlUVSiUvWg
The VAST MAJORITY of bank vaults built today are pre-fab, so the materials already exist for the Chinese to do a huge vault VERY quickly - the one caveat being the way the UL codes are written with maximum spans and areas, they would have to go through a custom design review "process" (the right word escapes me) for certification, which is one reason why no one goes for bragging rights (other than the astronomical cost per ft2 which would basically go unused).
Ya, and they had planned to build the world's tallest building in 30 days but had to cancel because they realized the absurdity about doing something on a massive scale with prefab chinese made material.
I can't wait for the DOLLAR to plummet because that will finally bring an end to our crony corporatists in China manufactuing goods there that last 1/10th as long as the same product made in the USA, let alone we don't have to spill corporate secrets.
The "Average Kingdom" is just that. Chinese are some of the most xenophobic people I have lived with while I was in China. They actually believe they are a superior race of people. The CCP perpetuates this myth ad nasuem and makes fake demon "laowai" dragons in the news all the time.
They have threatened to nuke 100s of US cities on 2 different occassions now and even are willing to go to WWIII over Iran or Taiwan. Mention the word "Japan" in China and you will see their faces boil over.
There are still 2.9 million slaves in China that work in the trafficking and sex trade industry. Are these really the people we want ruling our lives?
Wake up America, return to your roots. Respect our Founding Fathers and the ideal of a Republic. Fight for freedom, justice, and the greater good because there is a sycophant in Beijing that thinks you are a barbarian. They believe they are molders of men. Ah what hubris!
Until Americans pull the plug on TV and Hollywood than O and the Dems plus their Chinese overlords are in charge. Conservatives rationalize saying they watch Fox which just as bad. Your cable and sat TV fees keep all of them in the money because they all get a cut of that.
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guess you can't post chinese caligraphy.
this site is limited in other ways also. ah well.
Perhaps they really want to check and see if there's a secret tunnel to the NY Fed gold vault...
"Unless there's something going on behind the scenes like the US literally having a killswitch on the Chinese leadership"
Killswitches galore, around the world, to be found in the NSA database...
That is the GOAL!
3 - 5 years>
I believe New Patriot may have nailed it: FOB - Forward Operating Base. If you were going to head out on a 'bloodless' world domination, gold in all the right places would sure help your efforts.
The US has a naval base in Singapore, China has nothing.
What they do have is a Freeport, where physical goods can be vaulted outside national boundaries, ie Singapore customs wont touch stuff moved into the vaults.
Pretty convenient huh?
No seven year wait time for the not so patient Chinese.
...but the cupboards were bare....
Perhaps a means to sell Gold to the Chinese directly in a private manner that keeps them from buying on the open market? No silly Comex reports that will reveal just how depleted their stores are becoming.
China will be mad when they find no gold there, lol
"China will be mad when they find no gold there, lol"
the gold has already been moved of course and this is known by the buyer. but i still almost shot coffee out of my nose.
So wait......."old JPM HQ" being bought for its largest gold vaults" today, and yesterday JPM Chase banks says NO MORE INTL WIRE TRANSFERS, after Nov. 17th!!!!
Nope, nothing going on here, I'm sure its totally unrelated! Shit always happens for no reason!
Remember Jamie is rich "because he's smarter then you" and he gets the information before other people do, I wonder what he knows????
Enter the Dragon - the REAL new world order.
You mean someone actually bought the manipulation mechanism? I wonder if they did their due diligence to know the extent of the fraud?
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Don't have to worry about delays in delivery when you own the place, I guess.
possession is 9/10 of the law!
"Welcome our new owners, call them master."
They're just protecting what's their's. Can't say that I blame them.
They Bought the Gold and JPM threw in the building for free!
On a positive note, Chinese food is pretty good.
Isn't that special!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg
China has net imported 1033 tons YTD (through Hong Kong and all other ports): The Biggest Economic Power Shift In Decades.
http://koosjansen.blogspot.nl/2013/10/economic-power-shift-to-china.html
Arr your gord vaurt are berong to us.
All your gold are belong to us!
the great American garage sale lol, anyone dejavue ?
Japan buying LA?
exactly what i was thinking- like the japanese buying rockefeller center, at&t building, pebble beach golf course... the foreigners buying all our real estate smells like a top in commercial real estate (just like all the New York real estate families selling in 2007-2008 when the 'smart' institutional money was forming investment vehicles to buy NYC real estate).
it's a fallacy to think that the chinese know the 'long game' just because we don't understand them...talk funny, huge trade surplus, must be smart. The best is the confusion of Zhou Enlai's retort to the question "what do you think of the French Revolution," to which he replied, "it's to early to tell." the only thing is, it was interpreted as being a response to the 1789 revolution, but he was really referring to the 1968 student riots. cultural bias at its best.
And Pebble Beach golf course, and the IBM Bldg in downtown Atlanta, etc. etc. However, in the end, it's only a building in the center of America's trade center....and after all, who's China's biggest trade partner?
Obama administration: Marxist
Chinese Government: Communist
USA: Fucked
It's all going as planned by Cloward/Pivens.
What is extremely notable is that in one very quiet transaction, China just acquired the building that houses the world's largest gold vault.
Does the property come...furnished?
If you are of the mind that gold is a reliable store of value and wealth preserver it does not really follow that you would ever “have your fill” of domestically held gold and instead start storing the stuff in your frienemy’s backyard on the other side of the world.
Maybe the Chinese are anticipating another crash and want to have hard money on hand for when major assets suddenly go on sale.
Maybe they just want to have their gold holdings geographically-diversified.
Which is always helpful to party bosses in dictatorships that just might have to leave in a hurry, and might need some walking around gold when they get somewhere less exciting than where they just left.
Or maybe. Or maybe.
Who knows?
Boy, they are going to be pissed when they realize that the vaults are already empty.
Some interesting comments. One never knows until everyone knows.
buying gold, and now buying the gold vaults. the game is clear. later, when the gold is used to trade goods globally, Yellen will be telling that she never saw it coming. By that time, her opinion and dollar bills will be worth even less than today.
O/T a bit, but I saw a catalog of bearings from ZWZ, their largest manufacturer. I was very impressed. Their technology (at least ZWZ´s) is right up there with the best of them. German machinery... They even make the really big bearings for windmills (and China is ahead of us in wind turbine technology).
So, yes, it makes perfect sense that China wants other places to store the immense wealth they will be making in the future.
China is working on a gold backed Yuan to usurp the USD and they want gold stored in NY?
This whole thing is a bunch of crap.
Like we need moar rabbit holes to crawl down.
Yes, something really stinks...
"moar rabbit holes"
Let's not forget that the vault in Chase Manhatten Plaza is linked to the Fed's vaults. If China is secretly negotiating the liquidation of large tranches of their Treasury holdings with the Fed then this would be a convenient way for the Fed to deliver gold to China (into their new vaults) without exposing the liquidation.
Wheels within wheels within wheels...
Whether you believe it's going to be backed by gold or not, the Chinese ARE going to push the Yuan into the front seat with the dollar, as the planets reserve currency!
There's not single person you can find, who has done business in China, who won't tell you that. The Chinese only ambition in this world is too become the worlds #1 economy, culture, and power, period!
They also believe, total victory will only be had, if it done without firing a shot!
It will be just a temporary holding place until they can ship their Gold over the pond. They will gladly exchange their paper for your metal.
Then why didn't Germany out bid them for it?
..."ancient Chinese secret"...
Excellent point Ham-bone. Now we know what they will be storing in there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaD_fvehAaU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJP5f-fsHrs
nice...but this is what I was actually thinking...
What does worry me a lot in gold right now is how utterly dependent the market has become on the Chinese...if they are buying half of all new supply...what happens if they stop or slow down for whatever reason? Is there an obvious party ready to pick up the slack???
Yeah, India. Too bad their gov't suspended imports. I'm sure Russia and some Arab states would take all they could too.
There isnt enough gold anywhere on the planet to satisfy the claims made on every single ounce out there. It's just another paper Ponzi.
But doesn't this violate the first rule of physical? If it is not in your possession it is not truly yours? I guess China thinks the USA is so far gone they'd never consider nationalizing it.
Miffed;-)
All your base are belong to us.
I am disappoint.
this post was relvant to my interests.
"Just because there's a gold vault down there does not mean that there is any gold in it".
That's what the guys at the security desk told me...
You got to figure that it will be a lot eaier to move the gold from the Fed over to their new shiny fault next door. I suspect the Chinese are saying no freaking way we are going to wait 7 years for our Gold like Germany did, should only take a couple of hours to move it across the street.
It's aaaaaallllll on purpose, folks. And brzezinski is one of the senior scriptwriters.
Ever read one of his books? 110% smokescreen and misinformation.
lease-in/lease-out by NWO, Inc. to whom both "nation states" are mere subdiairies and distinct operating divisions
our government has been hijacked forever and China is an open laboratory where human life is not just cheap, it is worthless.
tonight im gonna party like its 1912
http://youtu.be/CtCZ5HKr-qI
The ancient culture in China has been horribly brutal for thousands of years. Human life is definitely worthless there.
Death by a 1000 cuts was utilized in China as punishment for over 1000 years until outlawed in 1905. Beheadings were commonplace for 4000 years.
You can't buy pussy, though. Wait...can you?!
Every gov in the world prints paper that you can give away for clean pussy.
Hmm
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Frack the bedrock bitches!
Someone needs to fall on their sword...will it be JP Morgan?
Furnished with lots of office furniture but no bullion (that doesnt belong to a lot of soon to be dissapointed "holders").
BUCKAROO BANZAI
AGAINST THE
WORLD CRIME LEAGUE
http://youtu.be/8MqJ3iGBdOo
Love it. Good times.
Dear Messrs Bankfine, Demon and Obummer,
Please present yourself to us for "An hour on the Tower of Power".
Sincerely, PBOC
In the meantime...
You guys are fearful that the Chinese have the potential to rule globally.
It's the welfare state that made us weak, the political system, and how the juice used it against us.
In China everyone works. There are no safety nets. You work or you perish from starvation. Because of this the people are strong.
In the US, the masses are weak and dependent, feminine and worthless like this thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Miller_%28journalist%29
One of the things that was pretty funny was Greece, EU and maybe Cyprus was looking for a bailout from China. It was less than a year ago. I think they wanted the Chinese to buy EU bonds or ECB (European Central Bank) bonds.
Some wag, not sure if it was Nigel Farage, said that the Chinese had no interest in buying European bonds to support european walfare programs that allowed Europeans to work 30 hours a week and retire at age 49 or something. It was right on the mark. The Chinese said no thanks to those bonds and the "bailout."
Actually there is healthcare if you reside in your home province of birth. That's it.
"starting to acquire gold warehouses in the banking capitals of the world"
you create a new base, you move all your shit there because the population is pliant, you use the templates perfected in the west for manufacturing, mining etc. (use round eye managers and design to get the ball rolling)
all it took was the yat-sen, kai-shek, mao loop to gut the culture, csco and goog built some slick Orwellian hardware (why simply dominate the media eh CFR?) hand-picked council of 300 (several thousand in this case) viceroy superclass c3po's run the whole deal. Maurice Strongisn't "hiding" in Beijing -- Suharto didn't happen on accident lol.
you then play the western nations while using them as your pit-bull. when it comes time to pull the plug people will cheer as you decommission spent assets and then buy your own shit for pennies on the dollar and get to act as both savior and new moral high ground.
think about it. you undercut your own ponzi scheme hologram (comex/lbma) - its a great con really. fucking round eyes barely can even figure out whats going on. they genuinely marvel at the actual physical volume of the sge and legitimacy of Chinese markets.
this is the NWO putting its finger in your face and saying to you "thou shalt have suicide nets outside thine factories or thou shalt have no GNP."
It will be used as a giant sex dungeon........
yes exacly - the US is descending into madness - becoming a police state run by bankers and sex crininals.
here'a video of a woman being tortured by a "cop" for refusing to have sex with him. Its a good thing no bankers were there or things could have really gotten out of hand -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhrWZ6twjw#t=259
hmmm
paper gold does not require a vault...I wonder why they need a vault?
anyone who owns "Gold" or a Gold ETF or any other derivative that is held by JPM deserves what they get -
The reason is unclear ?!?!?!? I am a software developer, not a financial wonk, and it's clear enough to me. China wants to become the world's reserve currency (and make good on the fact that U.S. Citizens are already chinese debt-slaves). In order to do this, they need to acquire a lot more gold. Holding it abroad makes it easier to accumulate more than people think they have.
Really, was that so difficult?
P.S. I especially love when people (not on ZH) say that China can't eclipse the US as the world's reserve currency because "our economy is bigger than theirs". They just need to gradually expand the base of nations and institutions that use the Yuan as the root unit of account instead of the USD. Then someday it won't be so gradual. They also need to ensure that their currency is perceived as more stable than the USD, hence the gold.
Edit: proofreading
Maybe China is looking down the road to their own gold backed reserve currency. They will want to be able to balance the trade account deficits with real gold delivery. Another possibility is that China just bought a lot of gold that has been parked in NY and they need a place of their own to stash it.
On that "down the road" idea. A thousand years is nothing to the Chinese. Islam and conquest. The Muslims remember getting kicked out of Spain around 1492 AD. To them that was like yesterday.
The sale price was amazingly low. I wonder what else was involved?
Maybe some oral?
Your 'gold vault' angle is pure bullshit ZH.
What is interesting is the low price paid for all that NYC real estate/floor space.
You're right but the truth will not come out for a few years.
The underground vault is going to be converted to the largest Bris Studio in the world made up of 8000 studio-like themed shrines decorated by the worlds most kosher rabbis.
It is known that one rabbi, with the help of Michael Eisner, is going to have a Disney like studio for Bris and Bar/Bat Mitzvah.
Mazel tov! Bitches.
Make sure to take as many shares as possible off insiders hands at $1000+ so you can hold onto the worthless paper while they transfer their dollars to yuan for the long haul.
Google is above $1000 to lure in muppets, there is no other reason.
If you wanted to internationalize a gold backed currency, or a gold backed trade settlement instrument, wouldn't it make sense? Shouldn't we expect them to do similar things in, say, London, Tokyo, and Berlin?
They are planning the worlds largest foot massage parlor.
"They are planning the worlds largest foot massage parlor."
Damn right Banzai - and space is needed for those basins of dead footflesh-eating littles fishes.
Gold vault my ass.
I'm sure the racketeers have already tunneled an alternate entrance.
If I were china I would'nt hold my pecker in that vault.
China: So we bought some gold in New York and got a really nice building included...
That's going to make one hell of a Chinese buffet.
Distressed asset sale of a building by a bank that sold it's gold, bought by a communist regime seeking legitimacy by buying an old building.
It knows the US dollar is getting close to being trashed,
The Fed wants to steal more wealth and the Chionese want real wealth, gold.
Chinese Premier: we like to return american funny money to you in excange for something real. Also we like to buy buiding with people inside. Chinese ghost city not have income.
Here's a preview of what will happen when China opens JPM's gold vault:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84OKTUx6LY
Sum Ting Wong
Hoe Lee Fuk
Do they get the connecting tunnel, too?
Wait til those smug New Yorkers get to deal with Chinese paramilitary goon guards on the street in front of that building.
Move arong, lound eyes. hahaha
Buying all the GOLD...houses...buildings...
Soon the Chinese will be stealing all our women!!!
[except, maybe, not the Walmart mammas]
Our women LOVE big ATM receipts.
they would not be so stupid to store their gold in it
as soon as it is full there is a mysterious robbery and all is gone, sorry
did you make sure you got all copies of the keys?
I thought you asked the sellers attorney to get ALL the keys.
Gold backed yuan?
Amerinbi, backed by 'american' gold!
and thank you by the way
That's the ticket for the rich and corrupt Chinese, when the economy falters and the Maos take the streets again. Family and Gold already parked in the US.
China bought the whole thing for less than a billion, BUT its the largest store of Gold in the US...something don't smell right, ya dig?
Next up China buys up Coca-Cola..so the may pee-pee in it.
Possession is 9/10th of the law Bitchez!
.002% chance QE will end in 2032:
http://tinyurl.com/le6e5hn
Yep. They've been unloading Treasuries since spring. They are going to clean out every last oz. at the FED by selling Treasuries. This is very bullish for real money. Very bearish for Federal Reserve Toilet Paper.
They just wanted to have some of their gold help near the centers of WashDC (US Gov and IMF) and NYC (bankster criminals and UN). Once the SDRs become the world currency, they want to justify being a large portion of the mix.
Presently a basket of currencies,consisting of the euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling, and U.S. dollar. They will be included in the mix.
The world powers will not give up their ability to deficit finance...
Pull it!
That vault doesn't hold gold, it holds the only remaining copy of the Necronomicon.
After having bought a share in nuclear power in UK, after having proposed to buy a major part of Peugeot in France, they now buy into corporate USA. While USA sulks in the hangover from Debt default avoidance, Xhina moves on to place its investments all over the world including Africa.
The next two years in this global game will be very interesting.
The Chinese have a plan and they are executing it. ....
and sadly, we seem to be assisting.
Handing it to them on a golden platter.
They start vaulting gold for companies and soverigns....then if any of these interests default, China keeps their stash of metal.
And yes...if they go to a pm backed currency, having 'stations' in the major financial hubs makes it so easy to do transactions.
the gold vault is only useful because it shortens the tunnel they need to dig to China.
Gee, I hope nobody flies a big jet into that building...
1 down, 1,509 to go.
They are planning on being #1 that's all .
I noticed a lot of "We Buy Gold" places popping up around Chase Manhattan Plaza. Now i know why thank ZH!