It's Finkelsniff time.
Well it will fuck up the gilts markets. Noice.
It's genius, Let the hedge funds all run into the gilts markets then fuck them over bigly. Gilts are the safe haven that won't be safe next week.
2008 was 'Cash for Gold' time, remember?
In the UK, when the banking system went South after the Beijing Olympics (coincidence?), every other advert on the TV back then was 'Cash for Gold'
Now, ask yourself what group of people might use that approach…?
Hint
What was the deal with the Angry Kid haircut?
Fucking Kek!!
Buy and hold…hold, no matter what…
Any gilts, basically. Depends on your available cash as to which to buy.
Ironically, giving them alcohol will flush the ethylene glycol from the anti-freeze out of their kidneys and prevent kidney failure.
I had to deal with glycol poisoning as a first aider once and they admitted the guy to hospital and the doc rang the pharmacy and asked them to send out for a bottle of vodka. They got him pissed to save his life.
Ingesting 100ml of ethylene glycol has been proved to be fatal.
Sauce, if you think I'm bullshitting you.
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0901/p807.html
Traditional treatment of ethylene glycol poisoning consists of sodium bicarbonate, ethanol, and hemodialysis. Fomepizole is a new agent with a specific indication by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of ethylene glycol poisoning.4,6,7,13,14 Ethanol and fomepizole are thought to act as inhibitors of alcohol dehydrogenase and therefore prevent the formation of acidic ethylene glycol metabolites,4,6,7,13 but only fomepizole has demonstrated this ability.
Ethylene glycol tastes sweet and would give no warning. Propylene Glycol is much less toxic and wouldn't have poisoned them. Propylene Glycol is used as an emulsifier and wine sweetener.
Unfortunately, the Austrians got them switched too.
The 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal (German: Glykolwein-Skandal) was an incident in which several Austrian wineries illegally adulterated their wines using the toxic substance diethylene glycol (a primary ingredient in some brands of antifreeze) to make the wines appear sweeter and more full-bodied in the style of late harvest wines. Many of these Austrian wines were exported to West Germany, some of them in bulk to be bottled at large-scale West German bottling facilities. At these facilities, some Austrian wines were illegally blended into German wines by the importers, resulting in diethylene glycol ending up in some bulk-bottled West German wines as well.
It's a 100% true story but I wouldn't recommend it as a lifestyle choice :D
It is bollox fuckery. I am a former industrial chemist with 25 years' experience.
Watch out for Methanol too - a lot of dodgy people are adding it to vodka to extend it so they can sell more. That is toxic as Hell and difficult to treat.
China owns a fuckton of land in the US these days.