Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-4708902-20161021003952/@comment-29740399-20161028162343

Maester Joseph wrote: SummerandBran wrote: Hi Maester Joseph, it's your nerdy friend! So, you don't think Jaime will kill Cersei as predicted? Also, I don't remember anything in the books about the Lannister gold mines running dry so I believe you are right. Besides, they have sponsored plenty of tourneys and such so why is the Capitol in such debt to the Iron Bank? And back to the original question: I don't think Tyrion is the Lannister's good reputation except to the audience. Especially now that he's coming with a conqueror. Oh, I'm very comfortable with Maggy the Frog's prophesy coming true, and Jamie as Cersei's killer. But we don't know when. This could even turn into a murder / suicide to avoid capture by Daenerys. (Remember Cersei's vow not to be taken alive by Stannis?)

> I don't remember anything in the books about the Lannister gold mines running dry

I don't remember it from the books, either. Just the few lines of dialog between Cersey and Tywin in the HBO production. Which leaves me wondering why it was written in.

> sponsored plenty of tourneys and such so why is the Capitol in such debt to the Iron Bank?

I'd guess that tourneys don't turn a profit. (Neither do most modern Olympics.)  They didn't even try, by licensing "The Official Brothel of the Tourney of the Hand", and the like.

King Robert spends; the Master of Coin borrows. I guess I was thinking  along the lines of why doesn't the US use it's own untapped oil instead of depending on foreign oil (I know the environmentalist POV, but I don't share it). I live in So Utah and they estimate that we have more oil than Saudi Arabi! So, Why does the Capitol depend on the Iron Bank when the Lannister's have gold? I realize the tourneys don't turn a profit but by them sponsoring them just proves they do indeed have money to waste.