Click the link here to take you to the Index Magazine archive. Jamie Reid's longstanding practice as an artist sits firmly within a tradition of English radical dissent that would include, for example, William Blake, Wat Tyler and Gerrard Winstanley. Like them, the work of dissent must offer, out of necessity, other social and spiritual models and Reid's practice is no exception.
When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.â (...) âThe Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. â The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century.
World's Largest Gold Reserves. Below is a list of the largest gold reserves by country as of March 2016. The largest holders of gold are central banks, international organizations and governments. The United States has the largest gold reserves in the world. Germany and China hold the largest gold reserves in Europe and Asia, respectively. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the third-largest holder of gold, with 2,814 tonnes (90.5 million troy ounces). Source: World Gold Council. * West African Economic Monetary Union including the central bank.