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The BRICS bloc has again advanced the claim that its members will forge a gold-based instrument to displace the dollar as reserve currency. Yet the central banks and political classes of these states continue to expand credit and suppress price signals, practices gold would instantly expose and punish.
These regimes cannot tolerate the discipline required. Their fiscal appetites and industrial structures demand perpetual inflation to mask inefficiency and maintain political control. The supposed alternative therefore collapses into another layer of managed fiat.
Sound money has always required more than reserves. It demands ordered liberty, productive households, and governments restrained by law rather than appetite. The classical gold standard that anchored European commerce from the 1870s until 1914 rested on precisely these habits of restraint, habits the present BRICS powers conspicuously lack.
Scripture repeatedly condemns false balances and inflated measures. The Reformed tradition applied the same standard to coinage and contract, recognizing that monetary integrity belongs to the moral order God has established, not to the decrees of princes or committees.
The Managerial Priesthood that now governs global finance, whether in Washington, Beijing, or Moscow, prefers the flexibility of paper. That preference reveals the deeper rebellion against fixed limits and inherited duty that has marked the City of Man since Babel.
America and the historic European nations still possess the industrial base and cultural inheritance that could sustain a return to honest money. The BRICS spectacle merely underscores how far those nations have drifted from the same inheritance while pretending to offer an alternative.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every promise of monetary salvation offered by rival empires still wedded to inflation. They must instead press for the restoration of sound currency within their own borders, beginning with the defense of household savings and the exposure of central-bank privileges.
Only when money again reflects real production rather than political will can nations recover the sovereignty they have surrendered to the printing press.
