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Iran replaces Dollar with Euro in FX

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009

PressTV

20th September, 2009

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in the country’s foreign exchange accounts.

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Dollar Collapses against Euro

Posted by smeddum on September 10, 2009

Currencies
The Dollar Collapses

Carl Gutierrez,

09.08.09

Forbes

The U.S. dollar reached its lowest point against the euro this year due to a myriad of forces including rising global stocks and commodities prices, low interest rates, and investors diversifying out of Treasury debt and into other assets including U.S. stocks with the Dow Jones industrial average approaching 9500 in late afternoon trading. Read the rest of this entry »

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The $US – Some musings….

Posted by smeddum on August 27, 2009

The $US – Some Musings…

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009

Cynicuseconomicus

I made an error just under a year ago, in predicting an early collapse of the $US; I predicted a collapse by April of this year. When the collapse failed to materialise I was forced to look at my model of the world, and explain why I had been wrong. Up to that point, my model had been reliable, and had managed to explain what was taking place in the world economy. Having been wrong before, I will this time discuss the $US in terms of ‘musings’ on the future. Read the rest of this entry »

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FED using foreign banks to monetize debt behind closed doors

Posted by smeddum on August 16, 2009

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The FDIC is in trouble

Posted by smeddum on August 6, 2009

THE FDIC IS IN TROUBLE
by Bud Conrad
Chief Economist for CaseyResearch.com and Editor, The Casey Report
August 4, 2009
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As we all know, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) guarantees depositors that they’ll get their money back if a bank fails, at least up to a certain amount. To fund its operations, the FDIC collects small fees from the banks that are held in reserve for the purpose of taking over troubled banks and paying off depositors. Read the rest of this entry »

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USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter |

July 29, 2009

Financial Sense

The tables are fast turning against the deeply indebted USGovt officials. USA Inc is in deep trouble. Its productive engines in both finance and industry are either wrecked or sputtering, even as its debt burden grows exponentially. Debt default litters the landscape. Next its sovereign bonds will be have to be sold to some extent outside the US$ Sphere, which will put at great risk its stock, namely the USDollar itself. Let’s call them USGovt Dragon Bonds. The custodians desperately seek creditors to supply much needed capital in order to fund the gigantic and growing USGovt debts, which by the way are grossly understated. The last resort is to monetize the USTreasury Bond issuance, a process well along. With the aid of the USDollar Swap Facility, the USFed has been able to secretly bid on USTBonds from foreign soil, have it appear like foreign bids, and conceal the continued and broadening monetization initiative. The United States is boldly defying the creditor nations, printing money, and buying its own debt. When more fully revealed, the USDollar will suffer the consequences. A sense of betrayal will surely come, much like discovery that the CIA has been flooding the globe with counterfeit $100 bills, or Wall Street has been flooding the globe with counterfeit Fannie Mae Bonds. Closer to home, it is akin to selling lemonade has been secretly watered down, or putting lawn mower clippings into the reefer batch before sale. Read the rest of this entry »

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World Prepares to Dump the Dollar

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Robert Morley

The Trumpet

21st July, 2009

What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball.

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Imminent Erosion of USDollar Seawall

Posted by smeddum on July 18, 2009

Imminent Erosion of USDollar Seawall
Jim Willie CB July 16, 2009

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The globe is losing patience with leadership and management of the USGovt ship at sea. They simply refuse to offer a credible solution to the primary keynote crack in the hull, falling housing prices and cratered mortgages, each of which work their destructive magic to wreck the banks. The home loan modifications are a farce, a travesty not designed to modify but rather to frame a series of loan forbearances. The motive for not fixing the mortgage mess is mysterious to the masses, but not here. Jackass claims have been consistent, that effective loan modifications would alter the underlying mortgage bonds drastically. The Powerz wanted enough time delay to rework as many mortgage bonds as possible into new securities, thus rendering impossible any legal challenges to the original mortgage package process. Charges of bond fraud still remain. The USDollar is vulnerable here and now, as a new wave of bank losses is imminent from numerous types of mortgages along with some basic types. Let’s see if the grapevine is correct, that the USDollar will begin to see a trashing initiative starting this weekend, out of Asia. They must be impatient beyond description. This autumn is expected to see some rather tumultuous events unfold, as the US financial structures are breaking across most of its ramparts even as loyalty to it is fading like a mist. There will be no return to the US of yesteryear, only a tragic march. Even the venerable Goldman Sachs seems under fire, for alleged NYSE tracking software with the potential for market manipulation. Read the rest of this entry »

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La Chine commence à s’écarter du dollar

Posted by seumasach on May 27, 2009

Voltairenet.org

22nd May, 2009

L’accord monétaire tacite entre Washington et Pékin est désormais rompu. Au cours des dernières années, la banque Goldman Sachs avait joué les bons offices pour convaincre le gouvernement US d’accepter la sous-évaluation du yuan, et pour convaincre en échange le gouvernement chinois d’investir en bons du Trésor US. Dés le début de la crise économique aux États-Unis, le directeur de Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, avait été nommé par le président Bush secrétaire au Trésor avec toute latitude pour maintenir cet accord. Plus récemment, le président Obama a nommé le lobbyiste pro-Chinois Gary Locke secrétaire au Commerce afin de poursuivre coûte que coûte cette coopération. Pourtant :

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Loud Paradigm Shift Rumblings

Posted by seumasach on May 24, 2009

Jim Willie

 

Contrary Investor’s Cafe

 

21st May, 2009

 

Numerous events have taken place of global importance. Alone, each story seems of some significance. Together, they paint a mosaic of extreme change in a very dangerous sequence of events that fit together. The greater aggregate story is that a tremendous paradigm shift is underway, with early steps and major moves by global players in clear view. The Western analysts and pundits and mavens are missing it. A PARADIGM SHIFT HAS BEGUN, WITH BANKING POWER SHIFTING TO THE CREDITOR NATIONS AS THE USDOLLAR IS SUPPLANTED, MADE POSSIBLE BY SEVERAL NEW INSTITUTIONAL PILLARS AS WELL AS NEWLY FORGED ALLIANCES. The consequences are significant and will change the face of global banking and commerce. The Hat Trick Letter has described the various steps and their importance all along the way. Much more detail is provided for each major point to follow in the HTLetter reports. Some in the United States and England believe that a return to normalcy comes. They are wrong by 180 degrees. The G20 Meeting of finance ministers and heads of state was the warning. The message from that meeting in London has been long forgotten, a call made in my public article immediately after its conclusion. This article provides an outline of events that have occurred only in the last few weeks, as the pace is accelerating for transformation that begins at the foundation. Piece it all together, use some mental power, sprinkle with only a little imagination, connect some dots easily, and take a look at the global picture that is emerging. Yesterday came the crowning blow, as the United Arab Emirates rejected the Saudis in the Gulf monetary union. My belief is that the rising power in the UAE wants Russia instead of the Saudis, who are tied at the US hip.

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China holds sway over US$

Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2009

National Post

16th May, 2009

“The U. S. should be afraid, very afraid. China is questioning the dollar’s status as a reserve currency and, at US$1,000 an ounce, gold has become the world’s de facto currency.” — John Ing, Maison Placements in CanadaIt is a chilling statement from an expert on both gold and China. But he is speaking the truth: In a G2 world (the United States and China), he who is the piper calls the tune, and China holds a US$2-trillion mortgage on the United States and is not happy. This country, along with others that lend money to the United States, such as Saudi Arabia, will determine the value of the U. S. dollar and gold. And they have spoken. They are not buying more U. S. treasuries and are buying gold as a new asset class. China announced that it was doing so quietly, and recent reports are that the Saudis and others have been buying bullion and hocked gold jewellery from around the world.

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