Do you want to know why gold is driving higher so fast?
The Golden Age is already happening.
Nothing is as it appears.
“What is Basel III?”
“After the financial crisis, new banking rules known as Basel I, II and III came into effect. The regulations were created by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), an offshoot of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
The regulations require banks to maintain proper leverage ratios and to meet certain minimal capital requirements. Tier 1 capital assets, such as cash and sovereign bonds (like US Treasuries), are considered the core measure of a bank’s financial strength from a regulator’s point of view.
Under the old Basel I and II rules, gold was rated a Tier 3 capital asset. Banks traditionally discounted a bank’s gold holdings by 50% of the market value. With gold’s value cut in half, banks had little incentive to hold gold as an asset.
As of April 1, 2019, gold bullion is a Tier 1 capital asset. Also, and this is important, under Basel III a bank’s Tier 1 capital assets must rise from the current 4% of total assets to 6%.
Because gold is now a Tier 1 capital asset, banks can operate with far less capital than when gold was classified as Tier 3. Then, banks had to hold extra capital on their books against gold holdings.”
Gold which was considered a tier 3 asset, was only counted for half its value.
That purposely discouraged banks from holding gold and helped suppress the price in order to prop up fiat currencies.
But that all changed in 2017.
“First announced in 2017, the Basel III rules apply to banks operating in the US, the European Union and Switzerland. Basel III was supposed to apply to UK banks as of Jan. 1, 2022, but according to the Bank of England, implementation has been delayed until Jan. 1, 2027.
Under the new regulations, allocated (physical) gold will be considered a Tier 1 asset and will continue to have zero risk weighting. Conversely, banks’ unallocated gold will be considered a Tier 3 asset. Unallocated gold refers to so-called “paper gold” like gold ETFs and gold futures.
In plainer English, Basel III requires the banks hold more high-quality assets to prevent liquidity crisis, reduce risky lending practices, and ensure the banks are more prepared for any kind of financial shock.”
In Trump’s first year in office, gold became a tier 1 asset and banks were required to increase their tier 1 holdings from 4% to 6%.
This is what is driving central banks around the world to massively purchase gold.
“According to the latest numbers from the World Gold Council, central banks added 1,045 tonnes to global gold reserves in 2024 — extending their buying streak to 15 consecutive years.”
“2024 was also the third consecutive year in which gold demand surpassed 1,000 tonnes, far exceeding the 473-tonne average between 2010 and 2021.”
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Can you see what’s happening?
Can you see the SIGNAL?
The world’s financial system, which has been centralized and controlled in order to pick winners and losers, based on a fiat debt system, is being transformed before your eyes.
Gold, which had been purposely suppressed for many years in order to prop up the world’s fiat currencies, especially the dollar, is now considered real money again.
The entire system is being decentralized and banks around the world are now purchasing gold. They are also, no longer storing it in centralized locations like the U.K. and the U.S.
They are taking possession of their own gold.
And “paper” gold continues to be a tier 3 asset because it’s not real gold.
By placing physical gold in the tier 1 category as “real money,” the ability to manipulate the price using “paper” gold has ended.
That’s why gold is rallying.
Trump is FORCING the world back to a gold standard, while at the same time, transforming and decentralizing the world’s trading system that only benefited the few.
Trump is making the world great again and going back to honest money.
A Golden Age
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