It will happen suddenly, as the collapse of the USSR did. CNN had just aired a glowing fiction about Soviet prosperity when the bottom fell out. The msm will be the least prepared of all, because they are so incredibly gullible.
I think the world has been quietly preparing for that change anyway. But it will be a multi-metal standard for asset-based currency because of my concerns of just not enough physical gold even with many gold mines operating around the world.
Yes it will happen as that...though we are already seeing the leakage pretty much everywhere...just some places rougher than others.
The disgust I have for our nations leaders keeping people in the dark on how serious things are is dispicable!