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Is Gold Shaping a New World Order?
Kashmir Observer
|NOVEMBER 5, 2025 ISSUE
From Riyadh to New Delhi, the rush for gold reflects a deeper quest for autonomy in an era of digital currencies and geopolitical finance.
The post-1945 financial order was built on the belief that global systems were apolitical: the money, markets, and networks functioned on neutrality. That belief no longer holds true.
Payment systems can now be weaponised, reserves can be blocked, and algorithms can enforce sanctions faster than diplomats can draft them.
In the shifting terrain of global finance, sovereignty is being silently redefined by gold reserves. Gold has reemerged as the most elemental form of security which is solid, neutral, and beyond manipulation.
‘The recent surge in gold prices crossing $3,500 an ounce in 2025 and projected to touch $4,100 by 2026 is not merely a market phenomenon. It is a political signal.
For decades, the U.S. dollar anchored the world economy, offering both convenience and control. But when financial systems were restricted and sanctioned after geopolitical conflicts, the illusion of neutrality vanished.
Holding dollars came to mean holding conditional power where wealth could be rendered inaccessible overnight.
It is this loss of certainty that has made the solidity of gold newly attractive. The world is, thus in effect, rewriting the grammar of sovereignty, and gold is becoming its new syntax.
Central banks have taken note. Between 2023 and 2024, they purchased more than a thousand tonnes of gold: the fastest accumulation in modern history. This is not a speculative rush but a structural correction, a hedge against the weaponisation of finance.
IMF data reveals that the dollar’s share of global reserves fell from 65 per cent in 2016 to below 58 per cent in 2024. In the same period, gold’s share rose sharply, particularly among emerging economies.
A 2022 IMF report titled “The Stealth Erosion of Dollar Dominance” observed that the dollar’s share in reserves declined from 71 per cent in 1999 to 59 per cent in 2021.
This story is from the NOVEMBER 5, 2025 ISSUE edition of Kashmir Observer.
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