Des américains vendent leur "trésor" puisque le prix de l'or atteint de nouveaux sommets...
It was a rainy afternoon in January of 1848 when a builder named James Marshall arrived at the office of his employer, John Sutter, a tannery owner, farmer and merchant, in a rural trading post in what is now Sacramento.
"He told me then that he had some important and interesting news which he wished to communicate secretly to me," Sutter later wrote in a letter to Hutchings' California Magazine.
"... Marshall took a rag from his pocket, showing me the yellow metal: he had about two ounces of it; but how quick Mr. M. put the yellow metal in his pocket again can hardly be described."
The yellow metal was gold, of course, and the secret wasn't secret for long. "Gold fever" struck, and by the next year people were flocking to California from as far away as Chile, Australia and China.
Fast-forward to April 2011. The price of gold has just hit $1,500 an ounce, a record high, and in a shop not so far from where that fateful meeting occurred, a different sort of gold rush is taking place.
Well, maybe not a rush, exactly. More like a "bump" -- that's how John Paul Liscandro, an employee of The Pawn Advantage Store in Santa Rosa, described it. A lot of people have been coming into the store to sell gold, he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/gold-hits-record-high-americans-sell_n_852320.html
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