A Return to the Gold Standard, or Gold Behind Currencies - Part 4/5

``One of today's most alarming realities is that the BRICS nations plus Australia (whose main trading partner is China) are the world's main suppliers of newly mined gold. It does not take a major leap of the imagination to see them fence this off from nations and direct it to their own reserves. The immediate effect would be that the supply of gold to the open market would spiral down rapidly sending the price of gold to heights never dreamed of, heights that would enable gold to relate more closely to the money supply of the different nations''