ECB Sounds Alarm on Gold Surge - Fears Will Trigger Financial Collapse

When central bankers start warning about an asset, you know it’s doing something right. According to Frank Holmes, CEO and CIO of U.S. Global Investors, the European Central Bank’s sudden anxiety over gold isn’t about volatility or stability—it’s about control. “The ECB is afraid of gold as much as they are afraid of Bitcoin,” Holmes told Daniela Cambone in a recent interview. And it’s not hard to see why.

Both gold and Bitcoin operate outside the reach of unelected bureaucrats and their printing presses. They’re decentralized. Portable. Uncensorable. In other words, the stuff monetary technocrats have nightmares about. When institutions like the ECB issue dire warnings about assets like these, it’s not the asset that’s broken—it’s the system.

“They’re trying to paint the picture that gold is possibly broken,” Holmes explains. “But what it’s really showing… is that the financial system is broken, and gold’s just sounding that alarm.”

In a world drowning in debt, plagued by negative real rates, and addicted to fiat lifelines, gold is once again doing what it was always meant to do: expose the rot. Holmes sees a paradigm shift ahead—one where gold could skyrocket to $6,000 as the global monetary regime continues to unravel.

The ECB doesn’t fear gold because it’s unstable. They fear it because it’s honest. 

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