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.
那是一場黃金熱——不過與淘金熱正相反。在將近20年的時間里，從加拿大到瑞士，從比利時到澳大利亞，世界各國央行都忙著拋售它們曾經寶貝不已的金條。在新千年交替之際，拋售行為愈演愈烈，以致于交易員們開始拿“新礦工”開玩笑，把各國央行比作加州的探礦者——后者在19世紀制造的淘金熱使黃金充斥了市場。
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