If You Think Gold is Just a Dollar Thing

The answer does go beyond the dollar, or even the "dollar as the world's reserve currency". Once ALL global currencies became fiat (after "Nixon shock" of 1971), the relative value of "real" long-lived commodities, like gold and silver, became the tide that now swamps every leaky boat (all fiat currencies are leaky boats by their very nature). It is ironic to me that we refer to fiat as "floating" currency, when "sinking" would be the more accurate term. The fact that all currencies are now fiat (including now the rapidly expanding USD) is the reason why this effect would inevitably be felt, as it is now, across all currencies, and not just the dollar. Currencies that were once tied to the lone floating dollar raft are now all free to sink, as they all inevitably should -- and more and more in unison.