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“The Americans no longer have the means to save themselves.”

Posted on December 27, 2009 by stacyherbert| 320 Comments

Stacy Summary: Haven’t seen this posted anywhere else, but it’s Martin Wolf speaking in Singapore. This, in my opinion, is going to be one of the biggest stories over next ten years. The dollar, obviously, can no longer function as reserve currency; but it’s one thing identifying the problem, and another thing fixing it, especially while that system is still operating. It seems we prefer collapse to motivate us to change course. Anyway, your ideas for solutions? Or, do you see no problem with what we have?

Do we need a new reserve currency?

“Because the dollar, to my mind, given its underlying conditions, is no longer a credible long-term store of value,” said Wolf.

“The Americans no longer have the means to save themselves, this is what I think people don’t understand. There is no credible American policy,” said Wolf.

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Tagged reserve currency, us dollar

USD: No Bottom in Sight

Posted on November 23, 2009 by stacyherbert| 19 Comments

Stacy Summary: We spoke to these guys for Death of the Dollar 2. As we only had screen time for about 5 minutes of their 45 minutes of tape, I should post the entire conversation.

Dollar slump persisting as top analysts see no bottom

Standard Chartered Plc, Aletti Gestielle SGR, HSBC Holdings Plc and Scotia Capital Inc. say the dollar will depreciate as much as 6.4 percent versus the euro. About $12 trillion of fiscal and monetary stimulus, the world’s lowest borrowing costs and a record $4 trillion of government bond sales between 2009 and 2010 will weigh on the currency, they said. So will the nation’s 10.2 percent unemployment rate and signs that the economic recovery may falter, they said.

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Sunday Video Club: The Dollar Will be Utterly Destroyed

Posted on November 8, 2009 by stacyherbert| 97 Comments

Stacy Summary: Here’s my video for Sunday viewing. What have you got?

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Tagged damon vickers, global currency, gold, us dollar

Over the Edge . . . with Janet Tavakoli

Posted on October 11, 2009 by stacyherbert| 100 Comments

Stacy Summary: Surprise! Here is the additional material we shot with Janet Tavakoli. Lots of interesting stuff here. Enjoy!

(For those who missed the first half, here is the On the Edge episode from 02 October)

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Tagged deflation, gold, inflation, janet tavakoli, max keiser, over the edge, us dollar

[Video] Max Keiser – Dollar to be buried by 2018

Posted on October 6, 2009 by stacyherbert| 143 Comments

Stacy Summary: Haven’t even had a chance to watch this yet myself, going to do it now!

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Tagged max keiser, russia today, us dollar

HSBC says sun is setting on the dollar [Updated]

Posted on September 21, 2009 by stacyherbert| 71 Comments

Stacy Summary: H/t @Mike/Liverpool for the article. Of course, HSBC has been talking about this for the past few years and they are no doubt right for the medium to long term; but, in the short term, this headline is probably a contrarian indicator. Right now, bullish sentiment on the dollar is at only 3% which is lower than where it was just before the dollar turned around last year and rallied ferociously.

HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy

“The whole picture of risk-reward for emerging market currencies has changed. It is not so much that they have risen to our standards, it is that we have fallen to theirs. It used to be that sovereign risk was mainly an emerging market issue but the events of the last year have shown that this is no longer the case. Look at the UK – debt is racing up to 100pc of GDP,” he said

Update: Video on dollar carry trade that might interest you.

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India drops a dollar nuke on holiday weekend Friday

Posted on July 3, 2009 by stacyherbert| 49 Comments

Stacy Summary: Yikes. Next week’s G8 is going to be verrrry interesting.

India’s Tendulkar says government should diversify forex reserves

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Did the dollar just die? [Updated]

Posted on June 26, 2009 by stacyherbert| 56 Comments

Stacy Summary: Thought I would gather some headlines on how other blogs are responding to the China’s announcement of the dollar’s imminent demise. Just domestic politics, or real threat? What do you think? And how are you positioning accordingly?

Naked Capitalism: China again throws its weight against dollar as reserve currency

ZeroHedge: RIP USD market volume

Updates:

Iraqi oil contracts to be auctioned in live TV ‘game show’ – Exxon, BP & Shell to participate

Stacy – Weird, this is like some demented oil minstrel show for the Twitter age.

“It’s like a Eurovision song contest or a game show for energy companies,” said an executive at a top-three global oil giant. “A lot of work has gone into preparing our bid but I think on the day we are going to see the process may be quite fluid. If some companies find themselves disappointed on one contract they may have to make deals with other partners on the spot.”

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New Labour imploding, gold looking good to some for the first time in 152 years

Posted on June 2, 2009 by stacyherbert| 46 Comments

Stacy Summary: Implosion in Brown’s party. While Brown’s bottom looks bigger and bigger every day as more dive into safety of gold.

Northwest Mutual buys gold for first time in 152 years

New Labour’s Jacqui Smith resigns

New Labour’s Patricia Hewitt, Beverley Hughes & David Chaytor resign

Abu Dhabi Sheikh’s record £1.5 billion profit

Updates:

Hummer sold to Chinese company

Russia’s demands for new international reserve currency blamed for dollar’s decline

US newspaper ad sales plummet $2.6 billion in Q1 2009

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Excessive consumption leads to dollar damage and muscle paralysis

Posted on May 21, 2009 by stacyherbert| 36 Comments

Stacy Summary: The dollar’s slow, painful death in a thousand headlines continues. While the study tying muscle weakness and paralysis to cola consumption explains, for me, the oddness of American obesity. While there are certainly plenty of obese people in Europe, they tend to maintain a human form and shape, a firmness to their large size; while the obese Americans I have seen seem to take on a very droopy piles of fat that dangle off their bodies. Perhaps it has to do with the vast quantities of cola that is giving them huge quantities of calories while also weakening their muscles? And re: the ‘accidental millionaires’ on the run . . . they are half way to being billionaires, now they just need to adopt Donald Trump’s ‘Mental Projection’ Technique.’ But seriously, they should have just used mental projection to become ‘millionaires’ through bankruptcy as does Trump. And the entire US economy for that matter.

A ‘serious case of dollar damage’ underway

Excessive soft drink consumption can lead to muscle paralysis

New Zealand hunts for ‘accidental millionaires’

Barter system booms in Colorado

IMF warns UK may have to nationalize more banks

Updates:

Cattle rustling on the rise in US as recession deepens

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Global showdowns: Dollar vs Asia and EU speculators vs Germany

Posted on May 18, 2009 by stacyherbert| 55 Comments

Stacy Summary: The standoffs grow more tense. Which sides are going to win?

China & Japan growing increasingly worried about US dollar devaluation policy

China’s gold reserves may back yuan internationalization (h/t snoopdiddy)

Gold at $930 a bargain

Europe waits for Germany to come to the rescue

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The US dollar hot button, Paulson’s threats & On the Edge with Max

Posted on May 14, 2009 by stacyherbert| 20 Comments

Stacy Summary: First off – sorry for the downtime on the site last night. Apaprently, we were being bombarded with traffic from yahoo as our site was hijacked via a plugin (apparently Tweet This) and so, alas, our bandwidth limit was hit. Next, Max has a new series from tomorrow, a co-production with Associated Press TV & Press Tv called “On the Edge with Max Keiser.” We are also hoping to do versions for other networks, including one that I may be able to announce by this weekend. So, tell me what you think about all the threats in today’s headlines!

The US dollar becomes a political issue in Japan

Paulson threatened bankers to take taxpayer money or be ‘exposed’

US plans to regulate derivatives trading

Russia warns it will use force to defend Arctic

SEC recommends charges against Countrywide’s Mozilo

Bush’s ‘smoking gun’ torture victim turns up dead – ‘suicide’

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Tagged arctic, bailouts, hank paulson, japan, russia, us dollar

Afternoon Headlines – 06 May 2009

Posted on May 6, 2009 by stacyherbert| 36 Comments

Stacy Summary: More signs of a transfer of power and wealth from West to East. We know from the history books what the British, the Spanish, the Roman, the Ottoman, etc. empires were like and we know from our daily lives what the US empire has been like. What do you think will emerge from a more China dominated world? Or will China even rise to become a superpower?

More than one in five American homeowners are underwater

China’s iron ore imports exploded last month

If China loses faith, the dollar will collapse

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Tagged china, underwater, us dollar, us housing market

Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 13 April 2009 [Updated]

Posted on April 13, 2009 by stacyherbert| 21 Comments

Stacy Summary: The global currency and sovereign debt grid are once again in today’s headlines; and those headlines are ominous for the economic futures of US & UK.