China And
Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Legs Out From Under The U.S. Dollar
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Posted:
11 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT
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.
China and Russia are not the "buddies" of the United States. The truth is
that they are both ruthless competitors of the United States and leaders from
both nations have been calling for a new global currency for years.
They don't like that the United States has a built-in advantage of having
the reserve currency of the world, and over the past several years both
countries have been busy making international agreements that seek to chip away
at that advantage.
Just the other day, China and Germany agreed to start conducting an
increasing amount of trade with each other in their own currencies.
You would think that a major currency agreement between the 2nd and 4th
largest economies on the face of the planet would make headlines all over the
United States.
Instead, the silence in the U.S. media was deafening.
At least there were some reports in the international media about this.
The following is from a Reuters article about this very important
deal....
By itself, this deal would not be that alarming.
However, the truth is that both Russia and China have been making deals
like this all over the globe in recent years. I detailed 11 more major
agreements like the one that China and Germany just made in this article: "11 International Agreements That Are Nails In The
Coffin Of The Petrodollar".
In that article I listed a few of the things that will likely happen when
the petrodollar dies....
-Oil will cost a lot more.
-Everything will cost a lot more.
-There will be a lot less foreign demand for U.S. government debt.
-Interest rates on U.S. government debt will rise.
-Interest rates on just about everything in the U.S. economy will
rise.
So enjoy going to "the dollar store" while you can.
It will turn into the "five and ten dollar store" soon enough.
Okay, so if you are China and Russia and you are working hard to undermine
the dollar, how do you get prepared for the fiat currency crisis that your hard
work will eventually create?
You guessed it. You hoard gold and other precious metals.
And that is exactly what China and Russia has been doing.
A recent MarketWatch article detailed the massive hoarding
of gold that Russia has been doing....
Of course Russia is not alone in hoarding gold. According to Zero Hedge, China has quietly been importing
gigantic mountains of gold....
And all over the world Chinese companies are buying up gold producers.
China National Gold Group Corporation has put in a $3.9 billion bid to buy African Barrick Gold PLC,
but that is only one example.
A recent Fox Business article listed a bunch of other
similar transactions that have taken place recently....
You would have to be blind to not see what is happening.
Other big names have been hoarding gold as well. In a previous article I detailed how George Soros,
John Paulson and central banks all over the planet have been hungrily
accumulating gold.
So what does all of this mean for the price of gold?
That's right - it is likely to keep heading up.
In fact, Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick believes that the price of gold will likely hit $2500 within 6 months.
Personally, I believe that there will be times when precious metals both
fall and rise in price dramatically. It is going to be a wild ride. But
in the long-term I believe that all precious metals will be going up as fiat
currencies such as the U.S. dollar fail.
Sadly, most Americans have no idea just how incredibly vulnerable the U.S.
dollar really is.
The following is an excerpt from a recent piece by investigative journalist Bob Woodward. It
shows just how worried our leaders are about a crash of U.S.
Treasuries....
What happens someday if the rest of the world decides to reject our
currency and our debt?
Right now we are able to trade our dollars for the things that we "need"
such as oil from the Middle East and cheap plastic consumer products from
China.
But what happens if the Federal Reserve keeps printing and printing and
printing and the rest of the world eventually decides that the U.S. dollar is
not even worth the paper it is printed on?
The truth is that the amount of printing the Federal Reserve has been doing
and the amount of borrowing the federal government has been doing are both
completely and totally unsustainable.
At this point, Moody's is threatening to cut the credit rating of the
federal government if a deal is not reached soon to reduce our debt to GDP
ratio.
And Moody's is not the only one concerned about our exploding debt.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble recently
stated that he believes that "there is great uncertainty about the course
American politics will take in dealing the U.S. government's debts, which are
much too high".
Just because the economy is relatively stable right now does not mean that
it is always going to be that way.
If we keep debasing our currency like this, at some point the rest of the
world is going to decide that China and Russia have been right all along and
that we need a new global reserve currency.
That day is coming. It might not come tomorrow or next week or next month
but it is definitely coming.
Once the U.S. dollar loses reserve currency status, that will be a major
turning point in the history of our country. We will never fully recover from
that, and we will never get back to the same level of prosperity that we are
enjoying today.
So enjoy spending those dollars while you can. The party is almost
over.
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