Not exact matches
Why can't they increase their consumption and investment levels rather than relying on the U.S. economy to buy their consumer goods and capital goods for surplus
dollars that have no better use than to
accumulate in the world's central banking system as excess
reserves?
Some analysts think that China and Saudi Arabia have
accumulated far more gold than they're reporting and are
accumulating still more gold surreptitiously — China to hedge its
dollar foreign exchange surplus, Saudi Arabia to hedge both its
dollar surplus and the depletion of its oil
reserves — but that China and Saudi Arabia can't acknowledge this accumulation lest they spook the currency markets and devalue their
dollar surpluses before those surpluses are fully hedged.
Russia, China, and other Asian countries have figured out that the
dollar reserve system is the mechanism of their economic enslavement and have started to prepare their liberation by
accumulating gold in a big way before gold is formally reinstated as the world
reserve currency or as a big part of that new
reserve currency.
China, for example, pegs the yuan to the U.S.
dollar, and
accumulates large volumes of
dollar denominated securities as
reserve assets.
In addition to the risks of health problems as we age, the
dollar cost of long - term - care insurance rises dramatically because the insurer has less time to
accumulate sufficient
reserves to cover its part of the risk.
For a time, the demand for US
dollars was satisfied by an increasing balance of payments shortfall, and foreign central banks
accumulated more and more
dollar reserves.