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  2. Gold holdings - Wikipedia

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    World's gold from 1845 to 2013, in tonnes (metric tons in the U.S.) World's gold holdings per capita, in grams Gold holdings are the quantities of gold held by individuals, private corporations, or public entities as a store of value, an investment vehicle, or perceived as protection against hyperinflation and against financial and/or political upheavals.

  3. Structure of the Federal Reserve System - Wikipedia

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    However, holding Federal Reserve Bank stock is unlike owning stock in a publicly traded company. The charter of each Federal Reserve Bank is established by law and cannot be altered by the member banks. Federal Reserve Bank stock cannot be sold or traded, and member banks do not control the Federal Reserve Bank as a result of owning this stock.

  4. List of holding companies - Wikipedia

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    Under the United States Bank Holding Company Act, financial and bank holding companies are regulated by the US Federal Reserve. [1] Companies whose elections to be treated as financial holding companies are effective include:

  5. Federal Reserve Bank - Wikipedia

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    The original Federal Reserve Act provided starting capital for the Reserve Banks by requiring the participating banks to purchase stock in a Reserve Bank in proportion to their assets. This stock pays a dividend out of the Reserve Bank's earnings but otherwise is quite different from common stock in a private corporation.

  6. United States Bullion Depository - Wikipedia

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    Under the currency reforms enacted by Roosevelt, the federal government owns the gold and holds it as security for $11 billion in gold certificates issued, in book-entry form, to the Federal Reserve Banks. [53] The Federal Reserve Banks use these certificates as a small fraction of the collateral for Federal Reserve Notes. [54] In addition to ...

  7. Gold reserve - Wikipedia

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    Official U.S. gold reserve since 1900 Changes in Central Bank Gold Reserves by Country 1993–2014 Central 2005 and 2014. A gold reserve is the gold held by a national central bank, intended mainly as a guarantee to redeem promises to pay depositors, note holders (e.g. paper money), or trading peers, during the eras of the gold standard, and also as a store of value, or to support the value of ...

  8. Trump advisers seek to shrink or eliminate bank regulators ...

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    Trump advisers and potential nominees have also discussed plans to either combine or otherwise restructure the main federal bank regulators: the FDIC, OCC and the Federal Reserve, the WSJ report ...

  9. Gold Reserve Act - Wikipedia

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    Gold Reserve Act; Other short titles: Gold Reserve Act of 1934: Long title: An Act to protect the currency system of the United States, to provide for the better use of the monetary gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) GRA: Nicknames: Gold Reserve Act (Devaluation) Enacted by: the 73rd United States ...