Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Pallado, Mediamonarchy.com. We're working with our data center partners to stabilize our service.

We're sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon. We have got that press release story, plus the gold and silver rush.

But first, unusual Fed rate check triggered free fall in the U.S. dollar. Investors fleeing into gold.

Now I see what you mean about the thing teasing

the first story we're talking about, James. Grabbing this from Fortune, the U.S. dollar has been in

relative free fall since late Friday. After it emerged, the New York Federal Reserve had conducted

a rare rate check with currency traders on the dollar Japanese yen exchange rate. Fortune understands that the

check was conducted per request from the U.S. Treasury. The purpose of the move implies that the

U.S. government may be considering coordinated action with the Bank of Japan to support the latter's

currency.

As a result, traders began selling the dollar, which is now down more than 2.26 over the past five days against a standard basket of international currencies on an unusually steep decline

given the gargantuan scale of the U.S. dollar in the global economy.

Even as they were writing in fortune over the last day alone, it lost 0.46%.

The yen was up more than 3% against the dollar over the same time period,

and then the Niki-225 stock fell 1.79%.

That is a sign that traders feared equities exposed to Japan's export trade would be hurt

by a rising yen. The price of gold, by the way, surged to a new record over 5,000 per Troy

ounce. I think it maybe broke its record again today as I come to you January 28th.

That has added to the anti-dollar narrative on Wall Street.

The dollar, as we have talked about for 17 years on New World next week, used to be a safe haven

asset, but as the U.S. becomes more politically volatile, investors are going elsewhere.

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