Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'
Jimmc414
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September 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
matheusmoreira
It's honestly quite impressive that it took them this long to do this.
tristanj
The American Service-Members' Protection Act of 2002, also known as the "Hague Invasion Act", gives the President of the U.S. legal authority to invade the Netherlands to free detained U.S. service members imprisoned by the International Criminal Court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
applfanboysbgon
When you think about it, it's really quite a remarkable state of affairs for a nation to trust another nation so implicitly they give it physical control of (a non-trivial portion of) their treasury, in a sense. And now that is coming unravelled. Another marker of human civilization's slow deteroriation. I remember a time when I thought things would only keep getting better and better with advances in technology and information sharing.... how naive I was.
jurmous
Location Before After Change New York 31.3% 18.5% −12.8 pp Ottawa 19.7% 18.5% −1.2 pp London 18.1% 32.1% +14.0 pp Zeist 30.8% 30.8% 0 pp Seems it is mostly because there was less trust in the USA, and added a little bit from Canada to make it less obvious.
0xy
Omitting Canada from the title feels deliberate.
RandomWorker
On the grand scheme of things this is 12bil usd worth of gold. The GDP of Netherlands is 1.4 trillion USD. So, this is honestly a foot note.
teleforce
Earlier this year France has pull out their last remaining gold held in US amounting to 129 tonnes moved to Paris [1]. [1] France pulls last gold held in US (361 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658146
inventor7777
Why did you modify the title to not include Canada? According to the HN guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
bulbar
There has been voices in Germany to do the same. I assume they just need longer for the planning and/or coordinate their effort so not not everybody does it the same time, to avoid another tantrum from that orange grumpy man. That's of course also why a little bit was taken out of Canada.
ChrisArchitect
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535526