Right now, the dollar benefits from the fact there is really
no reserve currency alternative.
Not exact matches
Simply put, the Canuck buck has become an attractive
alternative to the world's ailing
reserve currency.
Either an
alternative global
reserve currency will be established, or nations will institute dual -
currency trading: one value for real trade, another value for foreign exchange.
That will happen as soon as there is an
alternative world
reserve currency.
Thing is, we don't have a logical
alternative to the US Dollar as the global
reserve currency.
Particularly, in a situation such as that which exists today, where the shadow banking system responsible for much of the last few years of credit expansion is now dramatically contracting outside any possible control of the central banking authorities, there is no
alternative but deflationary collapse with a concomitant moon shot in the value of the world's
reserve currency v. all other asset classes.
In his comments at the Women's Economic Roundtable the other day, Paul Volcker mentioned an
alternative exchange rate system he was working on twenty - five years ago, having to do with, as I understood it, using
reserves that grow too big to trigger
currency revaluations.
Media companies and investment firms in South Korea, India, Australia and Japan have started to discuss the possibility of Bitcoin surpassing the value of certain
reserve currencies in the far future as an
alternative monetary and financial system.
Moreover, if bitcoin becomes one of the
reserve currencies of the global economy by targeting the $ 40 trillion offshore banking market, $ 8 trillion gold market, and the $ 50 trillion fiat
currency market, governments will need to have a supply of bitcoin and
alternative cryptocurrencies as the leading financial authorities.