The death of the Petro Dollar.
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales
Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington
https://archive.ph/pD9A0
We also have this, something is brewing
Saudi Arabia invites China's Xi to visit Riyadh
https://thehill.com/policy/internationa ... adh-report
Things heating up in the US on the inflation front
Trading in Metals to be limited, trying to put the breaks on a flight to Gold/|Silver?
And who can forget China, for the last few years Covid cases have been a few hundred a day, but now have exploded to thousands a day, and the Chinese are shutting down Cities with many industries that export goods to the USA, imagine that, just as inflation is accelerating and prices rising there will be factory shut downs making goods even more rare.

If one wore a tin foil hat they might even think this was a coordinated take down of the Dollar