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November 15, 2010
SouthAmerica: The US dollar has reached the end of the road after a long ride that lasted over 60 years - From the Marshall Plan days around 1946 to the Ben Bernanke QE1 and QE2 also known as the "Confetti" days.
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January 10, 2008
SouthAmerica:...Here is some food for thought regarding the US dollar:
â¦Today over 70 percent of US currency circulates outside the United States. The major holders of this currency are the euro countries, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore. (We are talking about trillions of US dollars.)
Over 70 percent of the US dollars ever created are flying around the world completely outside of the power and of the influence of the US government including the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank.
â¦About 75 percent of the US dollars circulating outside the United States are in the hands of these few Asian central banks, and if any one of these countries decides to sell their US dollar monetary reserves to buy gold it will produce a stampede to exit the US dollar, creating a gold and euro buying panic.
⦠This oversupply of US dollar circulation outside the United States might prove to be the Achilles heel of the US economy and also can become a nightmare to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve would need to raise interest rates in the US, creating a major problem for the US economy and the financial markets.
As of 2007, the US dollar still has the largest share (65.7%) of foreign reserve holdings by central banks from around the world, and the Euro has only a 25.2% market share.
In 2008, the current global currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves includes the US dollar with about a 65 percent market share and the euro has about a 26 percent market share â and combined these 2 currencies accounts to 91 percent market share of official foreign exchange reserves held by central banks around the world.
Here is another issue to keep in mind: the global financial system has been very creative and dynamic for many years and today there is an estimated 20 trillion US dollar in circulation in the world and most of them are in the form of electronic computer-credits. Only about five percent is in physical cash form. Half of those 20 trillion dollars float around the world outside of US borders and outside the US economy. If we have a major international monetary crisis in the near future and a large portion of that half of the global floating US dollars suddenly returns to US shores, instant hyperinflation in the US would be the result and also the collapse of the current international monetary system.
The day the world loses faith on the future value of the US dollar and the US economy - that's the day when the Titanic will hit the iceberg and sink.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...ns+of+US+dollars+around+the+world#post1742934
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November 15, 2010
SouthAmerica: Now that the Titanic has hit the iceberg...you also can kiss goodbye to:
Military spending, collapse of US empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIHOP4I3Ovo&feature=player_embedded
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