With tensions heating up around the world, a new monetary system is coming but we are being threatened with a crushing blow to our way of life.

A New Monetary System And A Threat To Our Way Of Life
Stephen Leeb:  “I’m starting this interview with a depressing admission: today, for the first time in a pretty long life, geopolitical events are starting to really scare me to death. No, it’s not Trump, or any particular president, nor is it Korean missile tests or any other specific event in the news. Instead, I refer to America’s growing inability to see, think, or plan long term. Commodity shortages are coming, a new monetary system is coming, and a divided, short-sighted country has no response. We are threatened with a crushing blow to the U.S. and our way of life…

Or to express it differently, despite America’s belief that under Reagan we won the Cold War as the Soviet Union dissolved, decades later I am convinced that we actually lost it and don’t know it – that Russia and China have done an end run around us that will become increasingly clear. With this growing awareness of our vulnerability comes an even firmer belief that the only way Americans can protect themselves is through gold. We’re facing unprecedented turmoil and chaos, and gold is the surest haven.

It should seem so obvious that you can’t solve most problems and build for the future overnight, but instead need to think long term and plan ahead. In the world of business, which is less complicated than governing a country, most leaders don’t have the nerve or vision to proceed with a long-term calculus. The few exceptions – Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway spring to mind – prove the rule. At first glance, they seem like strange bedfellows, the leading Internet retailer and a massive conglomerate with a more than two-generation record of nearly 20 percent gains. The common thread is that both invest for tomorrow, which can mean many years from the present, and that both have been the most successful companies in their life span.

China’s Move To Control Eurasia And The World
What works for individual companies works for countries. In 1996, China’s GDP amounted to about $860 billion, about 1/9th that of the U.S. By 2016 China’s economy in nominal dollars had grown more than 13-fold to about $16 trillion, only 15 percent smaller than the United States. This is a remarkable story that has been told many times. But less known is that even in 1996, China was thinking ahead to the 21st century and beyond, laying plans to dominate perhaps not just the East but the whole world. 

That year, 1996, was when China along with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan formed a military, economic, and political alliance called the Shanghai Five. In 2001, the year China became part of the WTO, Uzbekistan was added to the group, which was then renamed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The six members account for about 60 percent of the Eurasian land mass and a quarter of the world’s population. This year, India and Pakistan will likely join as well.

Of the six current members, the four countries outside of China and Russia were part of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and make up the core of Central Asia. Central Asia is a storied region. Its significance stems from its proximity to great historical powers on all sides and important routes that connect those powers, which include China, Russia, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Iran, and now other Middle Eastern states. These undeveloped countries are richly endowed with natural resources. According to Alfred Thayer Mahan, a 19th century U.S. naval officer regarded as one of the great geopolitical strategists in American history, and British geopolitical thinker Halford MacKinder, control of Central Asia provided a clear path to control of the Eurasian land mass and in turn of the entire world…..More Here