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Why The Regime Needs The US Dollar To Be The Global Reserve Currency: A Weakening Reserve Status Means a Weakening US Regime
Mises Institute ^ | 04/06/2023 | Ryan McMaken

Posted on 04/06/2023 9:43:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/06/2023 9:43:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Once the dollar is no longer the reserve currency, it will be more expensive to import items from China and others..........


2 posted on 04/06/2023 9:52:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s already happening Countries don’t trust President Retard and crooked buddies


3 posted on 04/06/2023 9:53:26 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind
I do believe this is what every war has been about.

It may actually be a good thing allowing competition .

after the dust settles the USA may stop being the Whore of Babylon and focus on development and production as its primary product instead of deception, cheating, looting and false flaggery as its major export

4 posted on 04/06/2023 9:59:01 AM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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To: SeekAndFind

Excellent article. It explains, in simple terms, the benefits Americans, and particularly power-hungry woke-leftists and central planners in US government, have enjoyed from world-currency reserve status.


5 posted on 04/06/2023 10:02:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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after the dust settles the USA may stop being the Whore of Babylon and focus on development and production as its primary product

Yep. printed, fiat money and massive debt-spending, without consequences is to arrogant US leftists and deep-staters, what free heroin is to street-junkies.

6 posted on 04/06/2023 10:05:05 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: NWFree

The USD is safe, if only because there is no good replacement:

* The Yuan - Not traded freely and itself is tied to the dollar
* The Euro - Could collapse if more Brexits happen
* Gold - Not nearly enough of any metal to underpin the economy
* Crypto - Impossible to secure

No one in the world is going to write a high-value long-term contract in anything other than dollars.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 10:06:30 AM PDT by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

the reason the USD was the world standard is because US policies were sane and stable...

a return to those policies will have the USD return.

stop the madness and impeach biden


8 posted on 04/06/2023 10:07:21 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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One thing I haven't read anywhere (which means it's probably been in a hundred sources), but which seems to me to be painfully evident, is that what is happening to the US in the 2020s is very similar to what happened to Britain in the late 1940s and early 50s.

The two events that are similar to the Brits in their time and to US in ours are first, that the world's preferred currency changes, and second, that the political hegemony collapses. In short, in the late 1940s the pound is replaced by the dollar as the world's preferred reserve currency, and today the dollar is being replaced, probably by none of the present currencies but rather by some global digital currency; and just as almost all the British colonies obtain their independence beginning with India in 1947 and going throughout the 50s, lands that have been essentially American protectorates (most of Latin America, the Middle East, Philippines, even Japan) are either asserting their independence, or finding another source of protection, usually either China or Iran.

9 posted on 04/06/2023 10:07:22 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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America should probably stop sanctioning every country we dislike.


10 posted on 04/06/2023 10:16:05 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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I agree. I haven’t seen a lot of talk about it, but I think there is a real parallel. I would also say that, coming out of WWII, the world had two Superpowers (US and USSR) but other nations on the winning side (UK and France) were clearly still Great Powers, right? Everyone knew that they were powerful, right? And then the Suez Crisis happened in 1956 and France and the UK both teamed up and were humiliated by ... Egypt???? It became clear to everyone that they were not Great Powers any more.

I think we are right at that point.


11 posted on 04/06/2023 10:21:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am more and more convinced other countries will destroy the current criminal U.S. government. As they destroy the American dollar, they pull the rug out from under the criminals running the USA.

We Americans deserve this destruction because we did not stand strong enough against this evil now fully in charge.


12 posted on 04/06/2023 10:48:46 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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13 posted on 04/06/2023 10:50:45 AM PDT by Bobalu (There was always going to be a reckoning....... and here it is.)
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To: Renfrew

The USD is safe, if only because there is no good replacement:
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That position of remain the universal international medium of exchange is not a certainty and I sense it is getting weaker by the day.


14 posted on 04/06/2023 11:30:19 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball

“That position of remain the universal international medium of exchange is not a certainty”

So what do you think will replace it? The USD is the common language of finance.

When an Angolan businessman meets one from Indonesian they talk in English, wear business suits, measure in metric, and trade in USD.

In 100 years some of those things might change. In the next 20 or 30, no chance.


15 posted on 04/06/2023 11:50:13 AM PDT by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


16 posted on 04/06/2023 11:59:45 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Biden surrendered to a tribe of illiterate goat herders stuck in the 8th century. The world is watching and rubbing its hands with glee as the USA is murdered by a band of stupid marxists.


17 posted on 04/06/2023 12:17:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind

But weakening the USA is the objective of the regime.


18 posted on 04/06/2023 12:36:54 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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Besides, everyone knows that the Chinese own Biden and he works for them.


19 posted on 04/06/2023 12:37:36 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Gnome1949

I am more and more convinced other countries will destroy the current criminal U.S. government. As they destroy the American dollar, they pull the rug out from under the criminals running the USA.

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The US central bank will end the dollar by printing money. Nobody else can.


20 posted on 04/06/2023 3:18:05 PM PDT by TTFX
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