{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/19966.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":19966,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"stop the banks selling gold and silver on paper iou and naked short selling","background":null,"additional_details":"The selling of gold and silver should be in a free market. Banks are naked short selling gold and silver (selling it when they don`t own it to sell) and also are selling it on paper with ious, thereby making the price of these metals artificially low. How can you sell something that you don`t even own? This needs to be stopped and therby allow these metals to attain their true value, which in todays economic climate is much higher than their spot prices.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":5,"created_at":"2011-10-23T12:14:50.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:25.497Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-10-27T13:31:39.000Z","closed_at":"2012-10-27T13:31:39.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-10-23T12:14:50.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[],"signatures_by_constituency":[],"signatures_by_region":[],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}