Earlier this week, we asked why multiple armored vans were parked outside the Bank of Spain’s Barcelona branch. The convoy would have been curious enough on its own, but the fact that the vehicles were stationed in the Catalan capital ahead of what amounts to an independence referendum piqued our interest and we asked if perhaps the Bank of Spain was preparing for any and all contingencies. According to the Bank of Spain itself, our suspicions were unfounded as “nothing extraordinary happened [on Wednesday] in the building of Banco de España in Barcelona.” “By the way,” the central bank added, “there is no gold in th ... (full story)