In other words, Ripple is attempting to turn XRP
into a global reserve currency of such even though it may not seem that way just yet.
Not exact matches
The problem is for this or other
currencies to become international
reserves held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this
currency into the
global economy.
What could be more a more fitting end to being the world's
reserve currency than to default in the end, but protect their own citizens, and send a large portion of the
global banking system
into insolvency, aside from that in the US?
US monetary policy with its unending bias toward stimulus, since we are the
global reserve currency (for now), pushes inflation out
into the countries that lend to us and
into the commodity markets as well.
If the US dollar were not the
global reserve currency, we would have long ago slipped
into chaos.