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All Swiss 1 kg gold bars will suddenly become laser-cut 500 g bars. It also might be malicious compliance by executive underlinings to soften the surprise.
by burnt-resistor 1y ago
All Swiss 1 kg gold bars will suddenly become laser-cut 500 g bars.
It also might be malicious compliance by executive underlinings to soften the surprise.
- elcritch 1y agoWouldn't that be more like 499.5 grams?
- eqvinox 1y agoCan't laser cut them anyway, you'd lose the assay stamp. Melting & reforming is the way to do this.
- elcritch 1y agoWhat about shaving off a gram or two with a file? You know I'd personally volunteer to help them do that to avoid the tariffs.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoShave off 1±0.2 μg and sell 0.999999999 kg bars instead. :D
- jonbiggums22 1y agoWorks for the engine size limits. Aren't all 2litre engines actually 1950cc?
- burnt-resistor 1y agoProbably. It saves them money on material. As long as they don't quote $.002/MiB as .002¢/MiB. https://youtu.be/nUpZg-Ua5ao https://youtu.be/nUpZg-Ua5ao
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- burnt-resistor 1y agoI was being facetious.
- jmclnx 1y agoOr maybe 2 kg bars ? But this is a rather big surprise to me. With the price of gold, I doubt only the very rich can afford these. Aren't those the people who Trump is trying to enrich. Or maybe the rich do not buy gold, or has another source.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI thinking mainly countries, criminals, and specialized artisans and industrial manufacturers take physical delivery of large quantities of gold. I'm sure there are always some usual requests to insist on physical delivery of gold in the case of options. Example: https://www.ibkrguides.com/kb/en-us/phys-delivery-comex-metals-futures.htm https://www.ibkrguides.com/kb/en-us/phys-delivery-comex-meta... Perhaps instead we should create aqua regia and dissolve copious amounts of gold, Fields Medals, and Nobel Prizes to be smuggled as, say, industrial waste. /s ;)