It was a gold rush – but in reverse. For nearly 20 years the world’s central banks, from Canada to Switzerland and Belgium to Australia, were hustling to sell their once prized gold bars. Around the turn of the millennium the selling became so intense that traders joked about “the new miners”, comparing central banks with the Californian prospectors whose 19th century gold rush flooded the market.
那是一场黄金热——不过与淘金热正相反。在将近20年的时间里，从加拿大到瑞士，从比利时到澳大利亚，世界各国央行都忙着抛售它们曾经宝贝不已的金条。在新千年交替之际，抛售行为愈演愈烈，以致于交易员们开始拿“新矿工”开玩笑，把各国央行比作加州的探矿者——后者在19世纪制造的淘金热使黄金充斥了市场。
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