・The Financial Regulation Reform Act enacted in the United States prohibited energy and equity-related derivative transactions by banks themselves, but currency and interest rate swaps were permitted, so it is possible to sell gold as well (p20)
・The price of gold has increased 35 times over the past 65 years (1945 to 2010), that is, 1 gram = 1 dollar (360 yen?) It's now 38 dollars (3,300 yen). (p21)
・The basic idea for a recommended purchase is to buy more when a gram is less than 3000 yen and hold it for a long period of time when it falls (p24)
・It is predicted that it will be around 10,000 yen per gram by around 2015, 5 years from now (p24)
・Futures trading has a system called additional trade margin, and when the loss caused by the transaction exceeds half of the initial down payment (margin), the same amount of the loss must be pledged (p44)
・Gold ETFs do not directly invest in gold itself, but are investments in “securities issued for the purpose linked to the price of gold” issued by investment banks (p54)
・The Federal Bank lent gold bullion it holds to large American banks such as Goldman Sachs, etc., applied leverage of 30 to 100 times to it, and “sold it” in the gold futures market, so it did not rise in the spot market from August 2008 (p57)
・When gold bullion is taken to the store where it was bought, there is no fee called an appraisal fee, and if an individual obtains it from a dealer, the dealer bears the consumption tax added to the sale price (p68)
・Since tax office workers can only tax “one-year income,” gold bullion stored in a safe is not within the authority of tax inspection (p86)
・The reason why crude oil prices have dropped from 2008/7 (158 dollars), when they skyrocketed to 73 dollars (2010/8) is because they do not let countries that are hostile to American K make profits (p90)
・As far as I can see the gold supply and demand data from 2000, the annual production volume is around 2,500 tons, so demand of about 1500 tons exceeds supply (p108)
・The Japanese government's money holdings are around 765 tons (2009), and it has been ordered to buy US bonds. China has exceeded 1000 tons (p110)
Created 2010/09/20
