The BRICS — a consortium of eleven countries, with 22 more in application stages, led by China, Russia, India and Brazil — declared in October the building of a new “gold settlement architecture as a strategic safeguard against global financial volatility.” This is a fine goal, which can take many specific forms. The quickest and easiest way (although not necessarily the “best” way) to get this done is to introduce “gold checking accounts”… Read More ›
The "BRICS" is now a consortium of ten countries, with 22 more countries in application stages, led by Russia, China and India. Events since 2022 have lit a fire under the BRICS members to establish a new global financial and currency architecture that is wholly independent of the US dollar system, which has been the main focus since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. Read More ›
The main advantage of a USD stablecoin is that it integrates seamlessly with the USD-based monetary economy of today. The main disadvantage is that its value is fixed to the dollar; and that value can be expected to decline over time, slowly or quickly. A better solution, and the one that the US used in 1913, is multiple private issuers of gold-based stablecoins. Read More ›
