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    China suggests switch from dollar to SDR

    China's central bank has called for a new global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund to replace the US dollar.
    BBC NEWS | Business | China suggests switch from dollar

    Interesting. China wants to replace the US dollar with IMF issued Special Drawing Rights which are based on a basket of currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY). 1 SDR currently equals 63 US cent + 41 Euro cent + 18 Yen and 9 UK pence.
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    Or maybe they could freely float the Renminbi and agree to buy debt in that...

    Seriously, as long as they have an artificially valued currency, they shouldn't be allowed any input into a decision like that.
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    I must imagine that the Chinese are looking at their dollar holdings, and feeling very aggrieved with Washington.How far will their 2 trillion dollars in assets decline, is any ones guess, that is the problem with printing money, no one really knows how much is too much, so we could see rampant inflation hit America this year. The Dollar is a high risk currency at the moment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eorna View Post
    I must imagine that the Chinese are looking at their dollar holdings, and feeling very aggrieved with Washington.How far will their 2 trillion dollars in assets decline, is any ones guess, that is the problem with printing money, no one really knows how much is too much, so we could see rampant inflation hit America this year. The Dollar is a high risk currency at the moment.
    I gave up predicting rates when the dollar went from 1.6 to 1.2 euro. I still have no idea why.
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    Quote Originally Posted by locke View Post
    Or maybe they could freely float the Renminbi and agree to buy debt in that...

    Seriously, as long as they have an artificially valued currency, they shouldn't be allowed any input into a decision like that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by locke View Post
    Or maybe they could freely float the Renminbi and agree to buy debt in that...

    Seriously, as long as they have an artificially valued currency, they shouldn't be allowed any input into a decision like that.
    They have $2,000,000,000,000 on deposit. While they hold onto that the US dollar isn't free-floating. They float it.
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    if that happens america will be properly bankrupt(not just paper bankrupt) and we reallky will have a crisis of capitalism

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    Hmmm..

    A bunch of communists suggest a global shared single currency standard? Of course they would - besides being commies, they could buy as much SDR currency as possible as they are so big, we would all become a vassal state of the Peoples republic of Earth, run from China.


    Looks like the collapsing market for cheap goods is becoming more apparent for them.

    What next? One global police force?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sandar View Post
    if that happens america will be properly bankrupt(not just paper bankrupt) and we reallky will have a crisis of capitalism
    Maybe, maybe not. SDR is 44% based on the US dollar anyway.
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