If the US messes up today, it will be screwed for good. Gold is already at historic highs, the market wants solid things, no country is trusting the dollar anymore, countries are creating alternative policies for these US rates and to free themselves more and more from dependence on the dollar.

BRICS will strengthen, policies from other countries will increasingly create alternatives to the dollar, gold purchases will become strong. The US will end up screwing itself if it messes up.