‘We’ll Wake Up One Day to Find a Different World’: The BRICS+ Shift Is Here | Andy Schectman
‘We’ll Wake Up One Day to Find a Different World’: The BRICS+ Shift Is Here | Andy Schectman
Miles Franklin Media: 8-8-2026
Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, ahead of the September BRICS summit.
Schectman argues that BRICS is no longer simply talking about challenging the dollar – it is methodically building the payment rails, commodity exchanges, vaults, and settlement mechanisms needed to operate outside the Western financial system.
Schectman breaks down the significance of BRICS Pay, mBridge, China’s CIPS network, the proposed BRICS Grain Exchange, and plans for a precious metals exchange.
He explains how local-currency trade and alternative commodity-pricing systems could gradually reduce global demand for both U.S. dollars and Treasuries – even if BRICS never introduces a single common currency.
Schectman also explains his theory that the United States may ultimately “quietly default” on the dollar’s reserve status by allowing gold to soar. He examines record central-bank gold buying, unexplained physical deliveries into the United States, Tether’s growing gold reserves, and whether stablecoins could simultaneously create synthetic Treasury demand while helping facilitate a broader monetary reset.
In this episode of The Real Story with Michelle Makori:
What could emerge from the September BRICS summit
BRICS Pay, mBridge and China’s CIPS payment network
The construction of a parallel financial system
BRICS Grain and precious-metals exchanges
How alternative price discovery could weaken dollar dominance
Why central banks are accumulating gold at record levels
Could gold reach $139,000 if the dollar loses reserve status?
Is America preparing to “quietly default” on the dollar?
Tether, stablecoins and synthetic demand for U.S. Treasuries
What the BRICS shift could mean for American investors
00:00 Coming Up
01:16 Introduction
05:13 Rails Vaults Exchanges
11:54 Summit Expectations
18:26 BRICS Pay Freedom Pitch
23:11 When Alternatives Bite
27:27 Gold Trust Layer
34:32 New Price Discovery
39:55 BRICS Grain Benchmark
41:35 BRICS Pricing Shock
43:02 Treasury Demand Unwinds
45:05 Bond Market Breaking Point
46:47 Fed Cornered By Rates
50:09 Dollar Still Dominant
51:42 Soft Default Thesis
53:37 Stablecoins And Gold
01:02:59 Gold Revaluation Path
01:07:34 Tariffs Or Sanctions
01:11:07 Investor Survival Playbook
01:13:53 Final Sign Off