🌏 Gold’s Great Migration: East Steals the Crown, West Left Holding the Bag? 🏆

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Ah, the Shanghai Gold Exchange, with its offshore vaults, has tilted the world on its axis-and Dr. Nomi Prins, the oracle of finance, declares Washington feels the wobble. 🌪️

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China’s bullion strategy is no longer a whisper but a symphony of steel doors in Hong Kong, Singapore, Zurich, and Dubai. 🎶 In a sit-down interview, Dr. Nomi Prins, former Goldman Sachs maestro, dropped the mic: “A time zone tilt, a geographical tilt, a power tilt.” 🕺

Her thesis? Custody is clout. When gold migrates East, so does influence, liquidity, and leverage. The founder of Prinsights Global insists central banks are taking notes-or should we say, bars? 📝

Prins traces this arc back a decade: China’s entry into the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights basket, followed by a steady gold accumulation and a U.S. Treasury purchasing siesta. The vaults? The physical crescendo of this strategy. 🎻

Hubs in friendly time zones create round-the-clock market depth and “jurisdictional neutrality,” Prins told Cambone. A place to stash metal beyond Western policy’s grasp-a siren call to BRICS and energy titans alike. 🛢️

Quality? Uncompromised. Prins foresees high-grade bars flowing through these venues, rivaling London’s standards while siphoning flows toward Asia and the Middle East. More demand, more metal locked away-a recipe for firmer prices. 🍳

“The Shanghai Gold Exchange and China’s mechanisms will boast high-quality, high-grade gold. They’re not in the business of low-grade,” Prins explained, her voice a blend of irony and insight. 🧐

“This will increase the trading of high-quality gold globally-in time zones, physicalities, storage. A new world order, gilded and gleaming.”

The West, she argues, sees the shift but lags in adaptation. The U.S. hoards gold yet wields it poorly compared to China and Russia. Sanctions since 2022 have accelerated this reserve rethink. 🧭

Add supply lines to the mix. Chinese institutions back mining projects, tightening their grip on future output as retail demand broadens at home. Not a master plan, Prins says, but an unmistakable strategy. 🗺️

On price, Prins is bullish: more buyers, thinner float, new trading venues-an upward bias. Her gold target? $4,500 by year’s end, with silver sprinting to $60 on industrial tailwinds. 🚀

Bottom line: custody is policy. If gold pivots East, the map of monetary power follows. The West must decide: chase, compete, or rewrite the rules. 🌍✨

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2025-10-06 01:08