Solid Gold Business Cards Are The New Currency Among Chinese Businessmen

October 31, 2012 By 9 Comments

The latest way to bribe public officials in China is to discretely pass out a few solid gold (tungsten free of course) business cards.

After all, who wants to pass favors for a paper trail of fiat debt notes?

 

Imagine you’re a businessman in Xian who needs some silly permit, and you have to grease a local bureaucrat. It would be untoward to deliver a suitcase full of cash… especially these days with all the internal scrutiny from the Bo Xilai incident.

So now what business people seem to be doing is minting solid gold business cards. When they want to bribe an official, they schedule a meeting, and hand them a business card or six. It’s so innocuous, nobody really notices.

For the bureaucrat, it’s much simpler to travel with a few ‘gold cards’ than cash. And Hong Kong is an easy place to store a collection of such cards… or even melt them down into other forms.


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  1. Avatar of saddle saddle says:
    October 31, 2012 at 11:52 AM

    That’s genius!  I need to find someone willing to press my random 99% silver into cards….

  2. Avatar of AGXIIK AGXIIK says:
    October 31, 2012 at 2:17 PM

    Pah! amateurs!
    My business cards are made of rehypothecated unobtanium.

  3. Avatar of XC Skater XC Skater says:
    October 31, 2012 at 2:27 PM

    How would that work through airport x-ray? Count before sending wallet through, and expec exactly one to be missing when it comes back?

  4. Avatar of AGXIIK AGXIIK says:
    October 31, 2012 at 3:51 PM

    Unobtanium is Thorium plated depleted Uranium.  Hit it with X-rays and the world as we know it will be destroyed.

  5. Avatar of silverbullion silverbullion says:
    October 31, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    I will take a silver business card.

  6. Avatar of Chief Chief says:
    October 31, 2012 at 5:20 PM

    So how it works is that you spend $2,000,000 on your business cards and then pass them out to clients :|
    And it’s so easy to melt them down into other forms :)

  7. Avatar of MaryB MaryB says:
    November 1, 2012 at 12:03 AM

    I could give you a few laser engraved aluminum cards in exchange for the gold…

  8. Avatar of Sumkid Sumkid says:
    November 5, 2012 at 6:34 PM

    Now that’s a business card that you should be happy when you receive one! How much are they worth in melt value and they actually made out of 24 karat gold because gold is way too expensive to give away, unless if you’re rich like the elites!

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