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The US dollar is being challenged by China's oil-futures trading market that opened last month. If the Saudis sell more of their oil to China, the yuan-denominated oil contracts and the launch of the gold-backed petro yuan could be a serious blow against the US petro dollar as the world's reserve currency. China's ace in the hole is its announced intention to make the yuan fully convertible to gold which, if actually done, would make it more attractive globally than the US dollar.

China and Russia need to improve relations in the economic sphere and use national currencies in bilateral trade.
The use of Western country’s currencies rather than domestic ones is viewed as entirely unnecessary, and not particularly of benefit to the national currency’s value and economy.

(MEMO) — Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than US dollars, as part of the country’s effort to reduce its reliance on the American currency due to political tension with Washington. Central bank governor Valiollah Seif said last […]

(ZHE) After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, this morning Turkey also announced that it has decided to repatriate all its gold stored in the US Federal Reserve and deliver it to the Istanbul Stock Exchange, according to reports […]

(TIM) — West Virginia Congressman Alex Mooney recently proposed legislation “to define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold.” Mooney harshly criticized U.S. monetary policy, citing the 96 percent loss since “the end of the gold standard in 1913,” which in real life terms means that means a dollar in 1913 would now be only be worth .04 […]

(ZHE) Just days after Beijing officially launched  Yuan-denominated crude oil futures (with a bang, as shown in the chart below, surpassing Brent trading volume) which are expected to quickly become the third global price benchmark along Brent and WTI, China took the next major step in the challenging the Dollar’s supremacy as global reserve currency (and internationalizing the […]

The American dollar will crash, and gold prices will surge to $10,000 per ounce. So says Byron King, the editor of Jim Rickards’ Gold Speculator.
The reasoning IS highly speculative, but there is logic to the claims that Byron makes:

De-dollarization has become popular, not only with countries like China, Russia and Venezuela (for reasons including sanctions and trade disputes), but also for individuals looking to diversify their holdings and liberate themselves from central bank, fiat control.
The Strategic Culture Foundation’s Federico Pieraccini examines if Bitcoin’s growth is connected to the global de-dollarization trend.
“Is Bitcoin a Reaction to US Dollar Hegemony?” by Federico Pieraccini…

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(ANTIMEDIA) — Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what amounts to more than just a symbolic blow to the United States. While the two discussed a number of issues, including Syria and Iran, according to CNN it was oil that dominated most of the discourse.