Schiff talking at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia in Jan 2009 Schiff has consistently hinted at the fact that should they be so minded the Saudis or the Chinese could in one fell swoop seize the balance of global power by creating their own gold backed currency. How? - i) by buying up all of the major gold miners - offering over the odds to ensure the deal goes through. Declare all of those companies' existing and future gold reserves will be stored in their national bank vaults and used as the basis of a new gold-backed currency. This new global currency would virtually instantly supplant the dollar as the world's currency of choice / reserve currency and - by extrapolating this scenario - the US is relegated to a second-tier nation. ii) implicit in this suggestion is that these nations could otherwise buy as much gold on the open market in order to bolster their reserves ahead of declaring a gold-backed currency. China and Saudi have in fact been doing this for the past 6 months or so... I should make it clear that I do NOT think Schiff is doing anything wrong or underhand here, he is merely saying out loud what is already being widely discussed. Oh - and Peter Schiff was right and will be right.
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