James Hickman, founder of Sovereign Man, said that gold could soon displace the US dollar, citing developing countries and the BRICS that consider holding the US dollar in reserves risky.
According to him, the risk comes because the US debt has exceeded the country’s GDP in 2024:
The US federal debt is a national embarrassment. At $35 trillion, the debt is far larger than the entire US economy and is getting worse every year.
Toy added, that while the Americans are selling shares of ETFs for gold, the central banks of the BRICS countries are acquiring it. Therefore, if the US economy were to collapse, holding gold in reserves could help their economies better cope with the collapse since they are not solely dependent on the dollar.
Hickman also pointed to the emergence of major warning signs that gold has a chance to replace the dollar, as people in the US have started to sell it and the BRICS countries are started to buy it:
North American investors sold shares in gold ETFs worth more than $4 billion in the first four months of this year, with $2 billion of that sold in the month of April alone.
The U.S. economy stumbled at the start of 2025, logging a 0.3% annualized decline in GDP—marking a sharp contrast to late 2024’s growth.
China is accelerating its push to make the yuan a dominant player in international trade, using global tensions and U.S.-led tariffs as a springboard to challenge the dollar’s longstanding dominance.
The Federal Reserve’s newest Financial Stability Report paints a more anxious picture of the U.S. economy, highlighting rising global trade tensions, growing policy uncertainty, and worries over the nation’s debt levels as key threats to financial stability.
European financial authorities are currently divided over how much of a threat Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly stance poses to the Eurozone.