Gold makes dead portuguese dictator top investor
Former dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar might have been remembered as Portugal’s best investor had central bank rules allowed the country to benefit from his shrewdest trade: Europe’s biggest gold pile.
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The 382.5 tons of gold that Portugal holds are valued at about $14.7 billion, or 6.8 percent of GDP after converting into euros[...]Portugal had 866 tons of gold in 1974, when the dictatorship of Salazar and his successor Marcelo Caetano ended.
Por enquanto, estamos salvos pela lei, mas nunca fiando. O melhor é ninguém dizer a Sócrates que o temos.
Euro passes stress test as debt panic ebbs
Europe may already have passed its biggest stress test.
The euro has rallied 8 percent from a four-year low last month. Greece, Spain and Portugal have managed to sell 50 billion euros ($64 billion) of debt since May 10, when the need to save the single currency forced finance ministers to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to begin buying bonds.
Ainda que a Europa se comece a encher de esperança, falta-nos a nós resolver a nossa crise, por isso nada digam a Sócrates, não vá ele extrapolar com previsões de euforia, bardar com o fim da crise como fizeram há uns meses, ou pior: rearrancar com elefantes brancos que ainda não se sabe muito bem em que ponto ficaram. Nada lhe digam antes que ele avance de novo com o TGV!