The Dollar Is in the Danger Zone
Hi Reader,
Happy Friday!
Every week, our experts all get together to exchange ideas.
We also take time to address some reader questions.
Like this: Will this announcement from BRICS have a crucial impact on American citizens and international citizens on the home front in a negative way? How can we prepare?
The short answer is yes. If what Jim is predicting takes place, Saudi Arabia will be accepted into the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). This in itself is a major power grab by the BRICS challenging the G7 countries. But if Saudi Arabia chooses to break the petrodollar agreement with America and sell its oil in currencies other than dollars…
It will be a MASSIVE blow to America and could be what leads to the dollar losing its reign as the global reserve currency of the world, weakening America’s power even more.
Or this: If the U.S. loses the distinction of having the dollar as the global currency, who will take its place? And what will happen to the dollar?
Well… there is currently no alternative to the dollar in terms of its reserve currency status because of the absence of a sovereign bond market of sufficient size and operational capacity. That role will be very difficult to dislodge, perhaps taking 10 to 20 years to establish the necessary infrastructure and gain the trust of market participants.
If no other currency can easily replace the reserve currency role of the dollar, is there any alternative at all? Yes, gold is ready and waiting in the wings. That’s the real danger to the U.S. Treasury market — that sovereign nations turn to gold to escape the dollar. The impediment to another currency as a reserve currency is the absence of a bond market where reserves are actually invested.
With gold, there’s no need for a bond market to absorb reserves because you have the physical gold as the resulting asset. If this came to fruition, the dollar would become another regional currency, such as pesos are to Mexico or the pound is to the U.K.
Now, let’s get into what they were looking at…
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