De-dollarization: Are China and the BRICS building a gold-standard trading system?
De-dollarization: Are China and the BRICS building a gold-standard trading system?

kdwalmsley.substack.com
De-dollarization: Are China and the BRICS building a gold-standard trading system?

Some of this speculation is coming from gold bugs, so take it with a grain of salt.
YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-jpJqDX7c
Bullets:
- Massive volumes of gold are being moved from Western countries, to vaults outside the SWIFT system and Western regulation.
- Even for the world's top gold mining countries, such as China and Kazakhstan, their central banks are buying, instead of selling, despite record high gold prices.
- It is possible that countries are depositing gold into vaults located in friendly countries, as a form of "mutual hostage-taking". In so doing, the gold on deposit can collateralize hundreds of billions of dollars in real goods trading, and thereby replace Treasury bonds and dollars in that role.
- Western sanctions against Russia have supercharged other governments' urgency to build an alternative trading system, free of political coercion and foreign oversight.
The guys at Goldfix have a thesis, which is very compelling. They put the pieces together, and believe that the BRICS countries are setting up a financial system, based on a gold standard. Gold is being used as collateral, right now, and China is leading the expansion of the whole system.
Horrible. Gold mining is an environmental catastrophe.
These days, much of it comes as a byproduct of other mining, especially copper.
Still enough money in it for people to mine the rainforests for it. Idk humans banking on shiny metal for some reason makes sense I guess.