401...The Power Of Gold

Missing.

From the super secure Royal Canadian Mint.

15, 300, 000 dollars worth to be precise.

No, not missing.

Stolen.

So says today's Ottawa Citizen.

This has happened before of course.

And the Mint had a nice little gambling operation going on inside its walls in the 1980's and 90's so it truly is business as crookedly usual on Sussex Drive.

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316...Honey, I've Lost The Gold

Ottawa Citizen today reports that, hmmm, a tour guide at the Royal Canadian Mint, told a tour that they, the Mint, had misplaced 7 000 000 in gold to slag.

Ah sh't happens.

This makes the magic number of missing gold about 13 large.

One would think if the tour guides have this information, everyone has this information.

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284...Your Gold Is Safe With Us, Mint Tells Clients

Reads the headline in the Ottawa Citizen this morning.

Funny that.

I mean, it is nice of them to say so but, as Ian MacLeod writes, the Mint is saying so "To halt a possible 'run' on the gold it safeguards for private businesses...as the investigation continues into as much as $20 million in lost precious metals."

As mentioned previously, this is not the first time the Mint has miscalculated their inventory. Not to mention that employees working out of the mint have used their offices to run various nefarious industries inside the sacred confines.

This should keep the spin doctors on speed dial for a while.

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