📉Fiat in Freefall: The 50-Year Gold Benchmark Just Collapsed

Since the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, fiat currencies have lost over 95% of their value in gold terms. But since 2020, the decline has accelerated into near-vertical collapse.

Latest data (Apr 2025) shows CHF holds 5.15% of its 1971 gold value. JPY: 2.53%. EUR: 1.24%. USD—issuer of the global reserve: 1.06%. GBP: just 0.58. These numbers are not noise. On a log scale, they mark the steepest synchronized fiat depreciation in five decades.

What triggered this drop? Not a single event—but policy by design. Trillions in pandemic QE, stimulus, rate suppression, debt monetization, and geopolitical money shifts have destroyed purchasing power faster than ever. US debt nears $40T. Real yields are negative. Central banks now defend optics, not value.

This isn’t volatility. It’s engineered erosion. Fiat currencies, no longer tethered to restraint, float on confidence alone—until they don’t.

Gold measures this silently. No spin. No yield. No counterparty. It records systemic decay like a geologic clock.

But it’s no longer alone. Bitcoin is rising as digital gold—finite, self-verifying, immune to dilution. Gen Z and institutional allocators see the chart—and are acting.

What began as monetary stewardship has become monetary theater.

Is this chart a retrospective of fiat’s past—or a countdown to its terminal phase?#AMAGE