Ericsson wrote:Tell opus Dei to start stocking up on gold
In fact since last year central banks have been on the largest gold buying spree since 1971 when the US broke off from the Bretton Woods world gold standard in 1971.Before 1971,the world was on a gold standard where the US dollar was backed by gold at 35 USD per ounce and all the other world currencies were tied to the USD at fixed exchange rates thus all world currencies were backed by gold.This meant central banks at the time couldnt print money indiscriminately like they are doing now as gold backing constrained reckless money printing.In the late 1960s especially,the US started cheating and printed far more currency (for the Vietman War,social welfare known as the Great Society in the "guns and butter" policy) than could be backed by gold in their reserves at 35 USD/oz.Many countries led by France started exchanging their USD reserves for gold and US gold reserves fell from 20,000 tonnes to 9,000 tonnes and to prevent a complete run on US gold the Nixon Administration delinked the USD from gold in August 1971 and the era of fiat money printing to absurd proportions began.

Now that the money printing spree is getting out of control,central banks are once again hedging themselves with gold.The Eastern nations especially Russia and China having been buying vast amounts of gold to hedge against the USD.Others like Germany and Poland have been repatriating their gold stored in London and US vaults preferring to store their gold for themselves as opposed to offshore storage where it can be confiscated.


As Ray Dalio,billionaire of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates once said "Cash is Trash".Whats the intrinsic value of the USD if the Fed can just print trillions of dollars by just typing new numbers on computers and crediting banks accounts and more recently even corporate and hedge funds accounts.Fundamentally the USD and other fiat currencies are trash though psychologically the USD is King relative to other fiat currencies that are also being printed up and hence the US dollar rise relative to other currencies in the current deflationary crisis though USD purchasing power has reduced 97% since 1913 when the Fed was created.
So Yes,Opus Dei should become smart and load up on gold.If the money printing bonanza continues,the destruction of these currencies is inevitable and a natural reversion to gold/silver as sound money is possible.The cycle from fiat currencies that collapse back to a gold/silver standard has repeated itself numerous times in history and this time wont be different.
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