The budget line that emptied a vault.
Modi asked 1.4 billion people to stop buying. They won't.
Warsh just inherited the same conditions Burns faced in 1970.
They replaced less than a third of what they pulled out.
Every melted bar shrinks the pool backing your paper contract.
Ownership without possession turned out to be neither.
The old playbook died on a balance sheet.
Seven months of spending, then the tool is gone forever.
Warsaw built a sovereign exit one monthly purchase at a time.
They're now on the other side of the trade.
The fix tells you more than the problem did.
$3.8 trillion in metal against $3.5 trillion in bonds.