Sentences with phrase «economies dollar reserves»

The dollar's fall against the euro and the growth in emerging economies dollar reserves are thus both manifestations of the same basic trend — a lack of private demand for dollars, relative to the US current account deficit, and the resulting pressure for the dollar to fall...

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The U.S. is the world's largest economy and the U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency.

The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

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?

The Triffin Dilemma, as this problem is known, points out that if foreign growth is high enough relative to US growth that the need for US dollar reserves grows faster than the US economy, the resulting US current account deficit will require that the US sell assets fast enough, or that US obligations to foreigners grow fast enough, eventually to put the US economy at risk.

Using foreign exchange reserves to support the currency — spending dollars to buy up renminbi — means the central bank is effectively taking billions of renminbi out of circulation, preventing it from flowing through the economy, where it can bolster growth.

The expectation that the Gulf economies will have to draw increasingly on reserves is putting pressure on GCC currency pegs, as five of the six countries are pegged to the US dollar; only Kuwait links its currency to a basket.

BEIJING — China's foreign exchange reserves rose slightly in March as broad U.S. dollar weakness continued and escalating trade tensions between the world's two largest economies bolstered expectations of a firmer Chinese currency.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

The United States carries tremendous debts, much of it owned by foreigners and foreign governments, other countries» sovereign wealth funds are looking to acquire chunks of the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollars is the world's reserve currency primarily because of inertia rather than our economic strength, and we ship money abroad every day to buy plasma tvs and gasoline.

Bitcoin was introduced to operate as its own economy, store of value, and digital currency, competing against assets like gold and reserve currencies such as the US dollar.

Louis and Ryan discuss the impact of the earthquake and tsunami on the world economy; inflation, interest rates, the Fed and Bank of Japan action and the U.S. budget negotiations; the profile of home purchasers today; the paradox of government intervention to make «homes affordable for everyone»; the direction of the rental market, rent vs. buy ratios; the comparison of Fed action during the Volker years vs the Bernanke era; Charlie Sheen, oil prices; the direction of the dollar and other currencies race to the bottom; the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency; the abandonment of the gold standard; the fate of fiat currencies; Utah's gold standard push; the actions states are taking to cut spending; the price of gold and silver and their role as stores of value; real estate vs. gold and silver as investments; the impact of shadow inventory on general inventory; the impact of the numbers of government workers and their salaries on the D.C. area housing market.