Getting near the bottom of the barrel.
"Venezuela is running out of money fast and has started selling its gold.
The cash-strapped country could default by next year when lots of debt payments are due. Venezuela's reserves, which are mostly made up of gold, have fallen sharply this year as the country needs cash to pay off debt and tries to maintain its social welfare programs.
Venezuela owes about $15.8 billion in debt payments between now and the end of 2016.
But it doesn't have enough to make good on its payments. Venezuela only has $15.2 billion in foreign reserves -- the lowest amount since 2003. A lot of those reserves are in gold.
Less than $1 billion of Venezuela's reserves are in cash, and it has a couple billion in reserves at the IMF."
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/29/news/economy/venezuela-selling-gold/index.html Yet another miracle of socialism.
