Why Is Russia Stockpiling Gold? - MarketWatch Perhaps it is due to the effort by the BRICs to reconstitute the SDR, with some gold in the basket of currencies, as a major instrument for international trade when the US dollar falters as the world's reserve currency. It is the most important thing that no one is even discussing. Big things are underway behind the scenes, the kind of sea change that everyone understands after the fact, but almost no one sees coming, especially those whose gaze is fixed from within deep wells of subjectivity.
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rise and fall, and you can foresee the future, too." Marcus Aurelius
The only certainty is change. Let's see what happens.
