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By 2025, China's yuan will be backed by gold.

Created by danpop on 2016-03-11; known on 2025-01-01

  • danpop estimated 75% on 2016-03-11
  • danpop changed the deadline from “on 2025-01-01” and changed their prediction from “By 2025, China's yuan will be backed by gold. See this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/18/l-todd-wood-day-china-says-its-currency-backed-gol/” on 2016-03-11
  • danpop said “http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/18/l-todd-wood-day-china-says-its-currency-backed-gol/on 2016-03-11
  • themusicgod1 estimated 10% on 2016-03-11
  • PlacidPlatypus estimated 5% on 2016-03-11
  • PseudonymousUser estimated 3% and said “Lol, no way. on 2016-03-12
  • Waring estimated 1% on 2016-03-12
  • Raahul_Kumar estimated 2% and said “Improbable. They may release a Gold Dinar style coin, or something like that, but Chairman Mao’s lovely face is staying on ¥ thank you very much!on 2016-03-12
  • Temeraire estimated 1% and said “Chinese money supply is ~142,000 bn CHY. That’s USD 21,780bn. Gold is 1250/ounce, so they’d need almost 500,000 metric tonnes of gold. That is more gold than exists in the world.on 2016-03-16
  • Temeraire said “… as far as I can see this prediction requires either massive economic collapse, massive space mining, or massive mis-calculation on my part.on 2016-03-16
  • JoshuaZ estimated 3% on 2016-03-16
  • PseudonymousUser estimated 0% on 2016-03-17
  • NickN estimated 1% on 2020-08-19
  • n99 estimated 1% on 2022-10-28