Even as European nations debate the appropriate response to the Trump administration’s massive trade tariffs against the EU, Germany’s government is discussing a very heavy but equally delicate problem: the possibility of getting 1,200 metric tonnes of its gold reserves out of the United States. The country has long debated the wisdom of storing so much of its bullion – the second-largest sovereign gold reserve in the world – in the vaults of the number-one gold-holding nation. But the reelection of Donald Trump, and the aggressive and unpredictable international trade policies he has championed, are adding ... (full story)