Daily Mail
"Gold remained tantalisingly close to an all-time record last night - highlighting Gordon Brown's spectacularly misjudged sale of 395 tonnes of bullion seven years ago.
Concerns that the global economy is facing a painful bout of inflation have pushed the gold price up by $40 an ounce to $988 this week - just short of last March's all-time high of $1,035.The surge in the precious metal exposes the poor judgment of the Prime Minister, who as Chancellor ordered the sale of a major slice of Britain's bullion reserves between 1999 and 2002.The PM dumped 12million ounces of gold at an average price of $275 per ounce, netting the public around £2billion.Had he held on and sold yesterday, the taxpayer would have been £5.2billion richer.The 'lost' windfall would have been enough to build around 400 schools or 40 hospitals."
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