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Re: BRICS will break the dollar and usher a return to gold - Mises Institute

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Re: “But Gold (or just about any other commodity) to back currency is just not going to fly. 1.) Poloticians do NOT want it as they could not inflate it.”
We'll see about that. You forget that there's a cycle going back thousands of years in which a gold currency gets debased, goes 100% fiat, fails, then is replaced by a new backed currency. Nothing has changed. It will happen again.

Backed currencies build trust. Politicians can then debase that currency - as they always do.

If BRICS wants to have a currency that gains global confidence and usurps the dollar as the global reserve currency, it will have no choice but to back it.








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Re: BRICS will break the dollar and usher a return to gold - Mises Institute
By: Zimbler0
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Thu, 31 Aug 23 3:04 AM
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Decomposed > An interesting article, so thanks. But I don't see how it bolsters your argument. China and India certainly hate and distrust one another - but not enough to stop either one from joining an organization that allies them on certain issues.

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If the new BRICS currency is backed by gold -
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Most of what you typed is True, De.

But Gold (or just about any other commodity) to back currency is just not going to fly.

1.) Poloticians do NOT want it as they could not inflate it.

2.) If the price of gold goes much above the 'BRICSY' peg certain enterprising entrepreneurs will redeem their BRICSY's for gold then sell it for a sweet profit - putting the 'BRICSY' backers into a situation similar to that Nixon had when he took the U.S. off the gold standard.

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