Lee Duna to Damn, that's [email protected]English • 2 years agoTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1191
arrow-up1191imageTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzLee Duna to Damn, that's [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square28fedilink
Context : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/gold-bars-used-to-lure-chinese-homebuyers-amid-market-slowdown
minus-squareKerblinkfedilink32•2 years agoyou can commonly find tungstein cored gold bars at sites like alibaba.com for far cheaper than real ones. they are aparently pretty much indistinguishable from real bars without special equipment. aparently even some major banks found some in their inventories
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•2 years agoI’d love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoI see you are prepared for the next Great Crisis.
you can commonly find tungstein cored gold bars at sites like alibaba.com for far cheaper than real ones.
they are aparently pretty much indistinguishable from real bars without special equipment.
aparently even some major banks found some in their inventories
I’d love something like that as a paperweight or door stop. Or to sit next to my trillion dollar coin
I see you are prepared for the next Great Crisis.