Well, you know my view. I agree partially with both sides of the debate.
Yes, the USD is propped up primarily due to oil, but America also has tremendous resilience and power projection. They won't go down without a fight and I wouldn't bet against them just yet. They have fairly earned their current stats as the superpower; it was no lucky coincidence and America is capable of miracles.
dev mate didnt know you wre such a diplomat. back to toilet paper or us dollar should i say. It will hit the tipping point within 10 years or so. The only and I mean the only thing that it might be allowed and this in my opinion will be in the gift of chinese if they want to do it and that is it might be allowed to play a part in a basket reserve currency with a much reduced weighting
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As long as the Chinese and the Saudis are trading in dollars and buying treasuries the $ will not tank. It will lose more value, but not tank.
sir your assertion if accepted means that americans no longer control their own destiny
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No mate you are wrong:
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/gds20091overview_en.pdf doubt you will read all this but there you go.
This downturn is a systemic failure. The failure is due mainly down to de-regulation and failure to enforce rules. Capitalism is based on supply and demand, as well as risk and reward. If one takes the risk of cheating and gets away with it, he gets a reward, this leads to more cheating (heard about Mr Ponzi). By not properly regulating the system, cheaters got rewards. Multiply this by several million, and you get our current issues. If regulations had been implemented, this would never have happened. Instead, we might have had another mild recession and your cyclic crax would have resulted.
oh and btw where chinese rich want to travel is totally irelevant. very rich people have never been on the whole patriotic and wanted to travel and have homes around the globe,
I thought id put this up again cos that sums it up the west love to say communism has failed but they silence of their system failure speaks volumes