Stories tagged with "reserve currency"
A Change Coming to the World Monetary System?
Posted by Luis de Sousa on October 7, 2009 - 10:03am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Economics/Finance
Tags: dollar, euro, g20, gold, imf, khaleeji, original, reserve currency, special drawing rights, yuan [list all tags]
Thoughts related to the world monetary system, and where it may be headed, below the fold.
Banking on Energy
Posted by Gail the Actuary on April 5, 2009 - 11:05am
Topic: Economics/Finance
Tags: chris cook, energy, international trade, reserve currency [list all tags]
This is a guest post by Chris Cook. Chris is Former Director of the International Petroleum Exchange, and is now a Strategic Market Consultant and commentator. The post was written prior to the G20 meeting which started April 2. In this post, Chris proposes that international trade be denominated not in dollars, but energy.
In the approach to the G20 meeting we saw two distinct threads of global policy emerging: one by the global debtor nations, led by the US, and another by global creditor nations, led by China.
London G20 Meeting: The Last Chance?
Posted by Luis de Sousa on April 2, 2009 - 9:42am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Economics/Finance
Tags: dollar, euro, g20, imf, khaleeji, original, reserve currency, yuan [list all tags]
As the G20 meeting that is supposed to “rebuild the Global Economy” begins, this post presents a few reflections on the likely major problem the world leaders face today: the damaged state of the world reserve currency system.
On the 24th of March, Frank Biancheri, head of the European think tank LEAP2020, published in the Financial Times the following open letter directed to the G20 leaders gathering in London on the 2nd of April:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your next summit takes place in a few days in London; but are you aware that you have less than half a year to prevent the world from plunging into a crisis that will take at least a decade to resolve, accompanied by a whole series of tragedies and ferment? Therefore, this open letter by LEAP/E2020, who saw the arrival of a « global systemic crisis » as early as three years ago, intends to briefly explain why it happened and how to limit further damage. […]


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