Crude +Gold Again this week Iran is taking food and gasoline to Venezuela . Iran will only accept payment in gold. This is becoming more common around the world as the US dollar becomes less stable . That physical gold price has little to do with US futures markets and a lot to do with the enormous physical gold markets of Shanghai . For the last 4 years the US has let China mop the floor with them . There is most likley no going back . Get ready for a bleak future . Biden is just as entrenched against China as Trump was . New ground to be threatening the guy that holds your mortgage .