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

Created by danpop on 2016-03-11; known in 10 days

• danpop estimated 75% on 2016-03-11
• danpop changed the deadline from “in 10 days” 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