14 September, 2012
China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Legs Out From Under The U.S. Dollar
China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Legs Out From Under The U.S. Dollar: The mainstream media in the United States is almost totally ignoring one of the most important trends in global economics. This trend is going to cause the value of the U.S. dollar to fall dramatically and it is going to cause the cost of living in the United States to go way up. Right now, the U.S. dollar is the primary reserve currency of the world. Even though that status has been chipped away at in recent years, U.S. dollars still make up more than 60 percent of all foreign currency reserves in the world. Most international trade (including the buying and selling of oil) is conducted in U.S. dollars, and this gives the United States a tremendous economic advantage. Since so much trade is done in dollars, there is a constant demand for more dollars all over the globe from countries that need them for trading purposes. So the Federal Reserve is able to flood our financial system with dollars without it causing a tremendous amount of inflation because the rest of the world ends up soaking up a lot of those dollars. But now that is changing. China and Russia have been spearheading a movement to shift away from using the U.S. dollar in international trade. At the moment, the shift is happening gradually, but at some point a tipping point will come (for example if Saudi Arabia were to declare that it will no longer take U.S. dollars for oil) and the entire global financial system is going to change. When that tipping point comes the global demand for U.S. dollars is going to absolutely plummet and nightmarish inflation will come to the United States. If such a scenario sounds far out to you, then you have not been paying attention. In fact, China and Russia have been working very hard to move us toward exactly such a scenario...
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china,
economic crisis,
future threats,
money matters,
russia
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Sorry no. Obama, trillion dollar deficits into the future, and Bernanke, QE2, QE Infinity are cutting the legs out from under the dollar. Russia and China are acting to protect themselves. If you are a creditor of the US, would you want to be paid in dollars that are guaranteed to be worthless in a few years? So why would they want to be paid like that?
ReplyDeleteFollow up to prior comment:
ReplyDeleteNews story on CNBC:
The latest round of quantitative easing announced Thursday by the Federal Reserve will almost certainly trigger a rating downgrade by Egan-Jones. Already the rating agency had warned on Wednesday when it affirmed
the U.S. rating at AA that “QE3 will likely trigger a negative action.”
It isn't the Russians and the Chinese that are the problem it is Bernanke and Obama. The Russians and Chinese could not do anything to the dollar if the Administration and the Fed. acted responsibly.