The BRICS Gold Breakout and the MoneyQuake Moment

Note From the President and Founder, Brian Hicks:

Every year, right about this time, something wild happens around here.

Our inbox fills up.

Old subscribers resurface.

New readers pile in.

And everyone is asking the same thing: “When is the predictions podcast coming out?”

Over the years, this annual event has quietly turned into something of a cult ritual. Not because we’re flashy… but because our calls have had an uncanny habit of coming true.

We were early on gold’s last big move — and we stuck our necks out again before this latest breakout in gold and silver. We were pounding the table on precious metals while Wall Street was still half-asleep.

We’ve highlighted the “Conjoined Twins” of this new era — the AI and infrastructure boom on one side, and the commodity and hard-asset boom on the other — long before it became fashionable to talk about it on CNBC.

We called the quiet accumulation in gold and silver years ago…

We alerted you about the coming renaissance in America’s mining sector…

We spotlighted crypto and tokenization of real-world assets before the last two major runs…

And we didn’t just talk in vague generalities. We named names.

• Northern Dynasty when almost no one wanted to touch it
  
• Silvercorp Metals when silver was still treated like a sideshow
  
• A slate of “forgotten” resource and infrastructure plays that are now dead center in the MoneyQuake I’ve been writing about
  

Both Northern Dynasty and Silvercorp Metals are up 290% and 190% this year, respectively.

This year’s predictions podcast is, in my view, the most important and shocking yet.

Our gold and silver price targets are jaw-dropping. And that means massive profits in the junior mining stocks we recommend.

Because 2026 isn’t just “another year” on the calendar. It’s the next major leg of a once-in-a-generation realignment in money, markets, and hard assets — the kind of environment where a single correctly timed move can compress 5–10 years of gains into a fraction of that time.

In the days ahead, you’ll see this podcast mentioned throughout our editorials. Consider those notes your invitation to join us as we walk through where we think the Dow, the S&P, the Nasdaq, gold, silver, crypto, and select “MoneyQuake” stocks are headed in 2026 — and why.

If you’ve been with me for a while, you know…

We don’t make timid predictions.

We make testable ones.

And this year, we’re swinging for the fences again.

We warned you this day was coming — and now it’s here.

The fuse that’s been smoldering beneath the global monetary system for more than a decade has finally burned its way into the powder magazine, and the explosion is echoing across the world’s financial capitals with a violence even the most seasoned analysts weren’t prepared to acknowledge. 

BRICS nations — a coalition that now represents nearly half of humanity, a rising share of global GDP, and an even faster-growing share of the world’s commodity base — have made the boldest, most explicit challenge to U.S. monetary power in modern history…

They are openly ditching the U.S. dollar and turning to gold as the backbone of a new financial order. 

To give you an idea of the scale and reach we are talking about with regards to the BRICS, let’s go through some numbers. They are jaw-dropping.

Why the BRICS Matter…

Because this isn’t a small trade bloc tinkering around the edges of global finance. The expanded BRICS+ alliance now represents 3.55 billion people — nearly 43% of the human population — a demographic gravitational force unmatched in modern economic history. 

When almost half of humanity begins pivoting away from the U.S. dollar and toward a hard-asset monetary system, the world doesn’t slowly adjust… it lurches. 

These are not fringe economies; China and India alone represent the beating heart of global manufacturing, high-growth consumption, and commodity demand. Add Russia’s resource base, Saudi Arabia’s oil power, and the UAE’s financial infrastructure, and you suddenly have a bloc that can rewrite the rules of international settlement without asking for permission.

And they have the economic muscle to do it. BRICS+ now commands a combined $30.9 trillion in annual GDP — roughly 29% of global output, more than the Eurozone and rapidly closing in on the United States. 

But GDP is only half the story. BRICS nations dominate the physical commodity world — the tangible materials that actually make the global economy function. They control energy. They control agriculture. They control copper, nickel, rare earths, coal, uranium, and steel. And most importantly for this moment in history… they control a massive and rising share of the world’s monetary metals.

Officially, BRICS+ central banks hold 6,600 metric tons of gold, but unofficially — once you account for China’s hidden accumulation and Russia’s under-reported reserves — the real figure is likely between 11,000 and 12,000 tons. That means the BRICS bloc may already control nearly one-third of all above-ground gold ever mined. 

This is not a coincidence. This is not an accident. This is a coordinated monetary repositioning — a generational bet — by nations that have lost faith in a dollar-centric system and are rebuilding their financial foundations on the one thing the Federal Reserve cannot print: gold.

Silver tells the same story from a different angle. While central banks don’t officially stockpile silver, the BRICS+ nations now produce roughly 45% of global annual silver supply and possess some of the world’s deepest industrial demand pipelines. India alone imports 8,000–9,000 metric tons per year — the largest silver appetite on Earth. 

When the nations controlling half the world’s silver flow begin moving toward a gold-anchored settlement system, the monetary narrative around silver shifts instantly. It stops being an undervalued industrial metal and becomes a leveraged bet on the death of fiat.

This is why the BRICS matter: because they are big enough, rich enough, populous enough, and gold-heavy enough to execute a monetary revolt against the dollar — and actually survive it. 

And when a bloc with this much demographic mass, this much GDP, and this much precious metal decides to pivot toward hard money, the price charts of gold, silver, and tokenized assets like NatGold don’t react gradually. They break out violently. They do exactly what they’re doing right now. They behave like the end of an era colliding with the birth of a new one.

This isn’t rumor. This isn’t speculation. This is a geopolitical revolt hiding in plain sight. And it is exactly why gold and silver have blasted to all-time highs. 

These are not “market rallies.” These are monetary shockwaves. This is the beginning of a global realignment we’ve been forecasting for years — the MoneyQuake — and those who ignored the tremors are now watching one of the greatest wealth transfers in modern history accelerate right before their eyes.

Because once nations openly abandon the dollar in favor of gold… the old world dies, and a new one begins.

BRICS Didn’t “Talk” About Ditching the Dollar — They Did It

The Intellinews report was blunt, direct, and historic.

BRICS nations — led by China, Russia, and India, and strengthened by new entrants like Egypt, Iran, and the UAE — are now rapidly:

• Shifting trade settlement away from the U.S. dollar

• Accumulating gold as a reserve weapon

• Building alternative financial rails outside U.S. reach

For decades, analysts whispered about de-dollarization “someday.”

BRICS just pulled the trigger today.

And the significance is breathtaking.

The U.S. dollar has been the foundation of global finance for almost 80 years. It allowed the U.S. government to borrow cheaply, American corporations to transact effortlessly, and Wall Street to operate as the gravitational center of world capital. Every country needed dollars. Every major commodity — especially oil — was priced in dollars. Every central bank held dollars.

But now the bloc controlling the world’s fastest-growing economies, most of its commodity production, and a massive percentage of its population, is saying:

“We’re done.”

And they are backing their new monetary architecture with gold: the oldest, most universally trusted, most geopolitically neutral monetary asset on Earth.

The BRICS move isn’t a protest. It’s a coup.

The “Unit”: A Quiet Bomb Under the Dollar System

If the BRICS strategy seemed abstract at first, their creation of a gold-anchored settlement token — known as the Unit — removed all doubt. Early documents and reports indicate that the Unit is being structured as a hybrid digital settlement medium, backed by a basket of member currencies and anchored by physical gold.

Roughly 40% of its weight is derived from gold, according to analyses referenced in global financial media.

Does that sound like a small detail?

It’s not. It’s the whole story.

Because once a major bloc introduces even a semi-official gold-based unit of settlement, it creates a competing center of monetary gravity. Other nations — especially those weary of U.S. sanctions, wary of U.S. inflation, or eager to diversify reserves — suddenly have a credible alternative.

The world doesn’t change all at once.

It changes when someone creates an option.

BRICS just created an option that didn’t exist yesterday.

And the moment gold becomes a functional settlement mechanism — not a sidelined hedge — its value must be repriced upward across the entire global financial system.

That’s what you’re seeing right now.

That’s why your gold chart looks like a missile launch.

That’s why silver is behaving like a compressed coil ripping upward.

This is not a “rally.”

This is monetary repricing.

Why Now? Because Fiat Has Finally Hit Its Limit

The BRICS didn’t wake up one morning and decide to challenge the dollar. The shift has been building for years:

• Runaway U.S. deficits
• Weaponized sanctions regimes
• Inflation exported through global supply chains
• A financial system built on increasingly fragile debt instruments

For emerging markets, holding dollars has gone from “strategic necessity” to “systemic vulnerability.”

Gold solves that vulnerability.

Gold imposes discipline.

Gold cannot be frozen, seized, debased, inflated, or politically manipulated.

When BRICS chooses gold, they aren’t choosing nostalgia — they’re choosing sovereignty.

And the market knows it.

This Is the MoneyQuake — the Structural Realignment We’ve Been Forecasting

Everything we’ve been writing for the last two years has been building to this moment.

The MoneyQuake thesis is simple but profound:

The world’s financial system is fracturing into a multipolar structure where hard assets — especially gold — regain monetary primacy as fiat credibility erodes.

We are watching that transformation live on camera.

Every gold bar Russia buys…

Every ounce China hoards…

Every trade India settles outside the dollar…

Every BRICS nation using the Unit…

… is another tectonic shift under the old world.

Welcome to the collapse phase.

Why Gold and Silver Have Ripped to All-Time Highs

Because they must.

Because they mathematically cannot stay where they were.

When:

• Global gold demand becomes structural,
• Sovereign accumulation becomes persistent,
• Fiat risk becomes political,
• Supply remains finite,
• Monetary architecture shifts back toward metal…

… prices have only one direction to go: up and then higher.

Silver is merely following gold’s lead — and because silver is thinner, more industrial, more volatile, and more leveraged to monetary shifts, it moves harder and faster.

If gold is the earthquake, silver is the aftershock that knocks buildings over.

Why NatGold Sits Directly in the Line of Fire — in the Best Possible Way

Let’s connect the dots because they all point to the same conclusion:

BRICS is adopting gold.

BRICS is digitizing settlement.

BRICS is creating alternative rails.

BRICS is elevating gold into monetary architecture again.

NatGold is the purest expression of this global pivot.

NatGold is not a trading instrument.

NatGold is not a mining stock.

NatGold is not paper gold.

NatGold is digital monetary gold backed by NI-43-101 verified, in-ground reserves — assets that are scarce, immovable, bank-proof, sanction-proof, uninflatable, unseizable, and fully auditable.

BRICS is building digital settlement tools anchored by gold.

NatGold is a digital asset anchored by gold.

BRICS is trying to bypass political monetary systems.

NatGold is a monetary asset that exists outside those systems entirely.

BRICS wants a gold-grounded monetary future.

NatGold is the gold-grounded monetary future.

The world is converging on what NatGold already represents — a synthesis of the oldest money and the newest rails.

That’s why NatGold isn’t riding a trend…

NatGold is the destination the trend is pointing toward.

The Next Stage of the MoneyQuake

Here’s where the story goes next:

1. BRICS expands gold accumulation
2. The Unit gains traction in regional trade
3. Central banks increase gold’s weight in reserve portfolios
4. Dollar liquidity dominance starts to erode at the margins
5. Gold supply constraints collide with exploding monetary demand
6. Digital gold systems — NatGold leading the pack — accelerate adoption

This is the golden domino chain.

Five have already fallen.

The last one rewards the early investors.

Final Word: The World Just Changed — Permanently

There are moments in history when you can see the old order dying in real time.

Nixon closing the gold window in 1971.

The Asian financial crisis in 1997.

The Great Recession in 2008.

And now — BRICS turning their back on the U.S. dollar and reaching for gold.

This isn’t a tremor.

This is the continental shift we warned you about over a year ago.

Gold isn’t rising because investors are scared.

Gold is rising because the world is repricing money itself.

Silver is rising because the monetary system is losing its balance.

And NatGold is rising because a new system is being born.

You are witnessing the beginning of a new era — one where those positioned correctly will look back on this year as the line in the sand, the faultline cracking open, the moment history turned.

The MoneyQuake is no longer coming.

It has begun.

Get to the good, green grass first…

The Prophet of Profit,