Wells Fargo Predict Gold Crash? A Viral Post Claim vs Real Facts

Wells Fargo Predict Gold Crash? Did M2 Money Supply Fuel Bitcoin Hype?

In the recent post of RKMtimes on viral X post claims Wells Fargo predict gold crash. But Why? Here’s the truth floating in this article. However, there is no official report to support these claims.

The Viral Claim: Wells Fargo Foresees a Gold Crash

• One of the recent posts on social media has become a viral one, indicating that one of the largest banks in the US, Wells Fargo, has forecasted a big crash in the gold, real estate, and stock markets. 

• This market crash stands on the fact money supply, M2, is exploding, a measure of the total cash and the money that is easily available in the market. 

• The post states that such an increase in money printing will only push money to scarce-supply assets such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

• The post further claims that U.S. banks are scared that people will utilize the surplus M2 liquidity as an opportunity to purchase Bitcoin, which is putting pressure on traditional assets.
  

Source: RKMTimes X

Reality Check: There is No Such Report.

Although the arguments are dramatic, Wells Fargo has not made any official report or statement about the crash. Indeed, these types of viral posts are usually created to attract attention, interest, and clicks in the crypto community.

World M2 Growth and Market Trend.

The fact is that the world M2 money supply has increased by approximately 44% since 2020. In most cases, when the central banks create more money, the traditional assets such as gold, real estate, and stocks tend to gain since investors seek safe havens or inflation hedges.

Nevertheless, over the past several years, the situation has changed slightly--cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are becoming more and more popular as a kind of digital gold. This has caused a portion of the liquidity that would otherwise have entered the gold market to migrate to crypto markets.

Market Data of Both Assets

Recent price movement is a more complicated picture than is being indicated by the viral post:

• Gold shot beyond 4,100, and this indicated that investors had confidence in the metal even with the global liquidity expansion

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• Bitcoin experienced a sharp flash crash, falling between $123K and $107K within a relatively brief time, and losing close to half a trillion in market capitalization. However, the Bitcoin price today is stable at $107324, rising 1.46%.
  

Source: CMC

• To make matters worse, some pictures were being shared with the viral post that depicted that Bitcoin was at 62,900, which is old and misleading.

• This comparison implies that the two gold and Bitcoin are not reacting to the same macroeconomic pressures in the same way.

The Real Position of Wells Fargo on BTC.

• Wells Fargo has been gradually increasing its presence in the crypto industry, even though it was expected to collapse. 

• Recently, the bank has made more Bitcoin ETFs available to its customers and announced that its BTC assets have soared to 160 million in Q2 2025. 

This shows that there is a positive outlook on digital assets as opposed to the rejection of traditional assets.

The Bottom Line

The viral statements of Wells Fargo forecasting a crash are not proven. BTC is still gaining institutional traction, and large banks such as Wells Fargo have become more exposed. Investors are not favoring either of the two but are diversifying in both.