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Gold is the new (old) global reserve currency so long as the child president continues his assault upon the institutions of Bretton Woods II.

So much harm has been done to US institutions in such a short period by the child president that his very presence is now an enduring threat to the Bretton Woods II regime of US dollar hegemony.

There are various safe havens against this white-anting of the reserve currency: the Swissy, partially the EUR, though it is limited by its fiscal malformation, and a basket of other currencies, including the AUD. Forget about CNY, it’s stuffed.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.