A note on the central bank.

Day 711, 12:31 • Published in Austria Austria • by H. S. Dovewatch

Austria,

I have recently noted the removal of rather a lot of gold from the Austrian central bank, and two very out of the ordinary shouts.

My instant reaction was: The ACB has been hacked.

However, I quickly convinced myself was not the case - as only a sum of gold was removed and not all of it.

An argument against this would be that a hacker would only remove some to try and cover up the hack, but my argument against that is that the hacker would then not draw attention to themselves by shouting.

I would suggest, therefore, that the money had not been removed without legitimacy, but not published in an article. This is of course bad, and a criticism of the current government's policy, but nothing of real importance.

I would like, though, to call upon the government to address the unorthodox and unprofessional conduct of the ACB in it's 'shouting' and the fact that the expenditure/exchange of the 250 gold (or around that) was not revealed in a publication to the general public as and when or before it happened.