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In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire welcomes back Lynette Zang, who breaks down the patterns driving financial collapse and explains how to spot these signals to secure the future with gold and personal preparedness. Zang warns that the systemic reset might already be underway, with the dollar collapsing under the weight of inflation and debt. As central banks hoard metal and gold surges past $3,300, Lynette urges immediate action to embrace real-world assets. Check out Lynette: ‪@TheLynetteZang‬ https://www.lynettezang.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:55 Patterns of collapse: history's warning signs 09:00 Central banks stock up on gold – why...

KEY TAKEAWAYS -The U.S. dollar has declined more than 4% since the start of the year, its biggest drop over this period since 2008. -Increasing recession risks have put interest rate cuts back on the table this year; interest rates are one of the primary drivers of the U.S. dollar's value. -A weaker dollar threatens to increase the cost of tariffs for consumers and businesses; it could also stimulate the economy by making U.S. goods and services less expensive for the rest of the world. -The U.S. dollar is having its worst start to a year since 2008 amid growing...

-Uncertainty about U.S. policymaking has led to a flight out of the U.S. dollar and Treasurys, with the dollar index weakening more than 9% so far this year, and analysts see more declines. -The drop in the greenback has led other currencies to appreciate against it, especially safe havens such as the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc as well as the euro. -Currency devaluation is likely to be more of an active consideration across emerging markets, particularly in Asia, said Nick Rees, head of macro research at Monex Europe. -“Emerging markets face high inflation, debt, and capital flight risks, making...

LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S. tariffs this week, they ran away from it. Investors say it's a sign that the greenback’s global standing may be eroding. The dollar, for decades a safe haven, on Thursday fell about 1.7% in its biggest daily drop since November 2022 (.DXY), opens new tab, after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imports at levels not seen since the early 1900s. Stock markets also tanked, as tariffs ignited recession worries….

This year’s gathering of the BRICS represents the largest group of world leaders traveling to Russia in decades, Al Jazeera reports. The original BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — will be joined by several others interested in discussing global finance.It is widely believed that the group aims to challenge American financial control and replace the dollar with a different currency.“BRICS, which represents countries containing nearly half the world’s population, has been described by some as a potential rival to U.S. global dominance,” writes Kelsey Ables for The Washington Post.Russia and China have already been working...

Money does not grow on trees” is an old expression of wisdom that seems to have been disregarded by 21st century American policymakers. People all over the world and throughout time base their decisions primarily through lived experience. The US dollar became the world’s reserve currency in the aftermath of World War II, which is now almost eighty years ago. There is virtually no one in power at the American government or in leading institutions who has a living memory from before that period. In fact, the elite status of US currency has been taken for granted and is being...

Blockchain-based project mBRIDGE will become the foundation for a new, global alternative financial system. mBridge does not support settlements made in U.S. dollars. Today, Warwick and Lena discussed how project mBRIDGE works, its structure, key stakeholders as well as the benefits that it will facilitate for the global majority. The discussion focuses on the process of de-dollarization, the BRICS+ bloc and the future of payment settlements.

Ultimately, they want to take down red America – duh. This thread from Nate Hochman is very long, very disturbing, and a total must-read. Yeah, we know, the words ‘MUST-READ-thread’ can sound sorta clickbaity but this time around, it’s just us being honest. It’s easy to take a red state for granted because in a red state you can typically make some general assumptions, especially a red state like South Dakota. Except folks, that’s not always the case. Grab a snack, get comfy, and take a gander at this: A powerful, well-funded coalition is working to bring the transgender movement...

India has taken its first step towards liberating itself from dependence on the US dollar by buying oil from Russia in Indian rupees We have seen the continuous rise of the dollar since the First World War. After World War I, in exchange for supplies, the Allies began paying in gold to the United States, due to which America became the world's largest gold reserve. After the end of the war, various countries linked their currencies with the dollar and with this, the 'Gold Standard' ended in the world and thus the dollar became the world's most preferred currency. All...

The share of Yuan is only 3.5% in global trade. The Currency was accepted by IMF as a Reserve currency considering its growing share in International trade in the year 2016, October 1 st. The progress is appreciable. However the contrast is against US$ that has about 60% market share. Here also it's share in Intl Trade is coming down. The reasons why the Yuan will not topple US$ dominance is simple apart from the current unquestionable lead..They are: # China's economy is a mystery and conceals many things. What it reveals is that which the State decides in the...

If the Chinese yuan were to become the global reserve currency, it would, in essence, give the CCP the ability to cripple entire nations.In July 1944, 44 delegates from Allied countries came together during World War II in Bretton Wood, New Hampshire. The goal? Devise an international currency system to manage foreign exchange that would disadvantage no country and effectively facilitate post-war rebuilding and commerce. The outcome: The U.S. greenback would be the world’s reserve currency.It has been almost 80 years since, and all nations have been better off with a United States dollar-dominated world. World gross domestic product (GDP)...

Last week, Fox News aired a segment discussing the possibility that the US dollar will cease to be the global reserve currency and what that would mean for Americans. The tone of the piece suggested that a “catastrophic” decline of the US dollar was not only possible, but perhaps even imminent. CNN last week also aired its own segment suggesting the US will face “a reckoning like none before” if the “dollar’s dominance” in the global economy falls significantly.Much of the analysis was framed to stoke the public’s fears of Chinese geopolitical power, and the Fox segment was especially hyperbolic...

Reuters reported on Wednesday that “India’s Oil Deals With Russia Dent Decades-Old Dollar Dominance”, which informed their audience that the growing trend of those two using national or third-party currencies like the UAE’s is something significant for everyone to pay attention to. To that outlet’s credit, it also reminded readers that IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath foresaw in the month after Russia’s special operation began that the West’s sanctions “could erode the dollar’s dominance”.Lo and behold, that’s precisely what happened, with India of all countries accelerating de-dollarization through its non-dollar-denominated energy deals with Russia. About them, Russia has since...

On October 7, 2022, US congressman Alex Mooney (a Republican from West Virginia) introduced a bill (the Gold Standard Restoration Act, H.R. 9157) that stipulates that the US dollar must be backed by physical gold owned by the US Treasury. The initiative clearly indicates that the increasingly inflationary US dollar is triggering efforts to get better money.It should be noted that there have already been many legislative changes to make precious metals more attractive as a means of payment in recent years: in many US states, the value-added and capital gains taxes on gold and silver, but also on platinum...

After it joined the World Trade Organization in 2000 and anchored the Chinese yuan (a.k.a. renminbi) to the U.S. dollar, China linked its economy to the United States. Enforcing a fixed exchange rate regime with strict capital controls, China benefited from large inflows and relatively low-interest rates due largely to the low-interest rate environment in the United States. What happens to the Chinese economy when interest rates increase in the United States?Sovereign currency policy faces the intractable dilemma of what economists call the “impossible trinity.” Countries can have a fixed exchange rate, free capital flow, or sovereign monetary policy but...

p>It’s no secret that China and Russia have been stashing away as much gold as possible for many years.China is the world’s largest producer and buyer of gold. Russia is number two. Most of that gold finds its way into the Russian and Chinese governments’ treasuries.Russia has over 2,300 tonnes—or nearly 74 million troy ounces—of gold, one of the largest stashes in the world. Nobody knows the exact amount of gold China has, but most observers believe it is even larger than Russia’s stash.Russia and China’s gold gives them access to an apolitical neutral form of money with no counterparty...

The US dollar is on the verge of breaking down to the lowest level since 2014. This is not all that surprising. After all, the US money supply continues to grow at a rapid pace relative to other countries and quantitative easing is likely to continue at full pace through the end of 2021. Meanwhile, other countries like the UK, Canada and others are already telegraphing rate hikes. Not only that, but the US budget deficit as a percent of GDP – which has a tight correlation with the level of the US dollar index – is set to explode...

Beijing experienced limited success in its quest to overtake the U.S. dollar as the global trade currency. But it may have an easier time convincing the world of its government bonds as an investment alternative to U.S. treasuries. So far in 2021, Chinese government bonds have far exceeded the performance of their U.S. counterparts. Since Jan. 1, Chinese government bonds were relatively flat in terms of returns from Jan. 1 through the end of March. In contrast, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasuries Total Return index fell 4.2 percent during the same period. Some investment experts think Chinese government bonds could...

The Black Law Students Association at the University of San Diego School of Law is calling for campus administrators to train and post diversity officers in classrooms to observe and report bias and other “disparaging” actions against students of color. According to an open letter from the USD Black Law Students Association, these diversity officers would be charged with watching classrooms and reporting incidents or conduct they consider questionable or discriminatory.

The eight-member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including China, Russia, and Pakistan, have made the principle decision to conduct bilateral trade and investment and issue bonds in local and national currencies instead of US dollars.