Hope it's okay to revive this since the topic is gaining new momentum. What seemed like a fringe theory until recently, the world outside the Western bubble is now actively pursuing to dethrone the US Dollar from its role as the world's reserve currency. Especially countries that got slapped or threatened with sanctions are fed up with weaponization of the currency and aren't having it anymore. The details are beyond this forum to discuss but everyone interested should include BRICS as a keyword in your news stream. Whether we agree with anything happening there or not, they mean business. Also, a number of central banks in countries not limited to said organization have been ramping up their gold purchases while the public is kept busy with pandemics, climate panic, woke stuff, ChatGPT and whatnot. Better start looking where it matters.