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- The Dollar as a Reserve Currency
- Bob Mcteer submits: Much hand-wringing is taking place over the reduction or possible loss of the dollar’s reserve currency status. That’s a bit ironic since the whole concept of a reserve currency is no longer valid in a system of floating exchange rates. Under the...
- External links 2009-10-23
- The Renminbi as a Reserve Currency (Part 1)
- Patrick Chovanec submits: Earlier this year, NYU professor Nouriel Roubini attracted worldwide attention by speculating in a New York Times op-ed that the Chinese Yuan, or Renminbi (RMB), might someday supplant the U.S. dollar as the world’s main reserve currency. Chinese officials have been quick to embrace the notion,...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Pipe Dream: A Single Reserve Currency
- Here we go again with the calls for a new reserve currency or a new world currency. From Reuters: A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Talk of New Reserve Currency Will Probably Lead Nowhere
- Michael Pettis submits: The number one topic of conversation right now seems to be an essay posted in both English and Chinese on the PBoC’s website by PBoC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan. In it Governor Zhou argues that the world needs a new and better reserve currency, one not dominated...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Reserve Currency?
- Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of the world's central...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Dollar's Reserve Currency Status Shouldn't Cause Investment Concerns
- The talk of the dollar being replaced as the world's dominant reserve currency may have you wondering about the effect on your investments. History tells us it should not be a worry. by Larry Swedroe
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Dollar Hit Hard Despite Sharp Rise in Pending Home Sales
- Kathy Lien submits: Dollar is being hit hard again Tuesday morning after reports that Russia supposedly released a statement confirming Brazil's comments last week about diversifying out of U.S. dollars. Russia is apparently taking things one step further by bringing up the notion of a supra-national world currency...
- External links 2009-06-02
- The Sun Sets on the Dollar's Supremacy
- Investor Nirav submits: According to a quote in the Telegraph, HSBC HBC has issued a new report stating that the Federal Reserve’s ultra-loose monetary policy is forcing China and other emerging countries to create a new global currency “order”. According to David Bloom, HSBC’s currency chief, the dollar looks...
- External links 2009-09-23
- IMF Head Eyes Global Currency Change
- By Alan Wheatley and Simon RabinovitchBEIJING (Reuters UK) - The imperative of greater global currency stability means the world can no longer rely, as it has done since the end of the gold standard, on a currency issued by a single country, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday.Dominique...
- News items 2009-11-17
- IMF Head Eyes Global Currency Change, Presses on Yuan
- By Alan Wheatley and Simon RabinovitchBEIJING (Reuters) - The imperative of greater global currency stability means the world can no longer rely, as it has done since the end of the gold standard, on a currency issued by a single country, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday.Dominique Strauss-Kahn,...
- News items 2009-11-17
- China Leads Japan in Market Cap
- Carl T. Delfeld submits: China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second biggest stock market by capitalisation as investors pile into the fast-growing economy. China’s listed companies had a market capitalisation of $3,210bn as of July 15 compared with Japan’s $3,200bn, according to Bloomberg data. It is the first...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead
- When the credit crisis broke out in Q3 2007, we were reminded about the horrendous mistakes of the past as the real culprit behind the bubble - many of us blamed Mr Greenspan! Central banks vowed not to repeat those mistakes while handling the problem. But as we slipped deeper...
- External links 2009-04-03
- Foreign Debt is the Biggest Issue | BTalk Australia
- (19min 11) On today’s BTalk Australia economist Nicholas Gruen from Lateral Economics gives his view on the economy. His biggest concern is foreign debt and the possibility of capital flight. He suggests why the economic downturn in Australia is different to many other countries overseas and, therefore, requires a different...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Fed Eyes Dollar Drop, But Hews to Low-rate Pledge
- By Kristina CookeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a rare comment on the U.S. dollar's value, on Monday acknowledged the currency's slump was raising some prices, but said other factors restraining inflation were winning the day.While showing he was not indifferent to the dollar's slide, Bernanke...
- News items 2009-11-16
- What's Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy
- The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- U.S. Dollar Decline: Just a Matter of Time
- Andy Singh submits: It looks the rest of the world is getting tired of using the once mighty Greenback as it's reserve currency. Recent reports show that China and other emerging super powers have started seriously calling for the creation of a new global currency to eventually replace the US...
- External links 2009-03-27
- China's Reminder to the Fed on Controlling Inflation
- U.S. consumer prices flashed mixed signals again in April: from a year ago, the overall headline CPI was down 0.7 percent -- once again the biggest drop in 50 years -- as large declines in energy prices offset rising costs for everything else, including food. However, the core CPI, ex-energy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Obama Plays China Card, But Who Holds the Ace?
- By Caren Bohan, Paul Eckert and Simon RabinovitchWASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters UK) - Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up.Obama, who will visit Shanghai and Beijing for the first time on November 15-18, spent much of...
- News items 2009-11-03
- SDRs Should Be Poison to Gold. Think Again.
- Isam Laroui submits: Warning: what follows could be construed as a bullish view on gold and could therefore make gold haters uncomfortable.I'm sure I'm not the only blogger who noticed what gold did (or didn't do, I should say) when Tim Geithner committed his now infamous (for a few hours...
- External links 2009-03-26
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