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By EconMatters

Whereas a few years ago countries repatriating their gold seemed to be ‘the hype of the month’, once the dust started to settle, we didn’t hear much about gold repatriations anymore.

At least, until last week, when Germany announced it has been able to accelerate the gold repatriations. Indeed, the country has now repatriated all the gold it wanted to get back from New York and now has to bring just 91 additional tonnes ‘back home’ from Paris.

Source: Bundesbank.de

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that over 30 million people will be dead within the next 15 years as a result of a biotechnology attack.  Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Gates warned that the next worldwide epidemic will likely originate from terrorists using biotechnology to spread a dangerous “supervirus” around the globe. “The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus … or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu,”  he told the audience.

The first time we explained that one of the biggest risks facing a world in which the dollar is the reserve currency is a global USD shortage, was in mid-2009, when we wrote "How The Federal Reserve Bailed Out The World."

Goldman Sachs really wants the market lower.