China's central bank recently made a hugely important announcement. Very few mainstream media outlets are even mentioning this story, but China just put a somewhat significant nail in the coffin of the U.S. dollar's status as reserve currency. Currently, most contracts are settled in dollars. So if Great Britain wants to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, they must first buy dollars. But China's central bank just began to allow certain cross-border trades to be settled in the Chinese yuan. In the solitary Reuters story on the subject one sentence sticks out as especially foreboding for the dollar: "In a statement on its website www.pbc.gov.cn, the Chinese central bank said it would respond to overseas demand for the yuan to be used as a reserve currency." http://www.wyattresearch.com
Nice info and possible sub-cause / nail to the Dollar's demise. But for me its a lot easier to just watch the price of silver and gold and see how many nails sustained.
