The flow of power and gold is going from West to East. China may have accumulated a staggering 1,500 tons of gold last year alone. China’s growth is now picking up steam as well. What is really stunning is how much the yuan has increased in terms of international transactions.”
“The usage of the yuan in international
transactions has been increasing at an unbelievable 170% per year.
That’s how fast the yuan has been increasing in terms of international
transactions. So goes the gold, so goes the power, and you can see it
in the prominence the yuan is gaining.
“We are headed for another Bretton Woods.
It is unsustainable for currencies to continue to lose their purchasing
power while median incomes, especially in the US, continue to go down in
the West.
At a certain point the
Chinese will say, ‘It’s time to have another equivalent of Bretton
Woods.’ That will challenge the BIS, and quite possibly lead to some
sort of gold standard. What Bretton Woods did was reestablish the gold
standard as the Second World War was coming to an end.
Countries had gone off of
the gold standard during the Great Depression and subsequent war, and
nations wanted a new monetary standard. At that time the US had 20,000
tons of gold. So the US set up Bretton Woods and established the gold
standard and the dominance of the US dollar globally.
The gold standard worked
pretty well until the US got out of control in the late 1960s and early
1970s with all of the spending. The kind of unbridled prosperity the US
experienced after Bretton Woods was amazing. From the end of World War
II to the early 1970s, those really were the ‘Golden Days’ for the US
economy.
I could prove to you that
purchasing power and well being were higher in the early 1970s as we
were going off of the gold standard than they are today. Since the US
was taken off of the gold standard, inflation has been dramatically
understated in this country. As a result, growth has been overstated
and standards of living have been overstated.
My point here is that it is
hard to make an argument against some form of a gold standard. I think
that’s where we are headed. The reality is that the US was able to
impose a gold standard on Britain and the rest of the world because they
had all of the gold.
The reality of a ‘Second
Bretton Woods’ would be China will play the part of the United States,
and the United States is probably going to end up playing the part of
Britain. That’s not good. It doesn’t mean our economy and everything
are going to crash, but it will cement a ‘New World Order.’ And the new
king of that world order is likely to be China.
By the time China has
10,000 or 12,000 tons of gold, whatever the number is, they are going to
have a lot more gold than we will have, and this will take place within
the next 2, 3, or 4 years. There is very little doubt about that. The
US has already gone from 20,000 tons, to supposedly 8,000 tons, but
it’s probably a lot less than 8,000 tons. There is enough documentation
that proves this conclusively. Why does it take 7 years to ship 300
tons of gold to Germany? Go figure that one out if the US has so much
gold on hand.
So that is where we are
headed -- to another gold standard. It is now a question of when it
will happen, not if it will happen.”
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