{"id":28077,"date":"2017-11-17T07:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28077"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:14:36","slug":"is-the-dollar-really-a-petrodollar-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28077","title":{"rendered":"Is the Dollar Really a Petrodollar anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is the Dollar Really a Petrodollar anymore?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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QUESTION:<\/strong> Mr. Armstrong; I want to thank you so much for shedding light on what can only be deranged forecasts on the dollar and gold and never change regardless of how much money they lose people year after year. I received this email with the headline\u00a0How Much Longer Can the Petrodollar Survive? They claim that now adversarial nations like \u201cChina, Russia and Iran\u201d are threatening the petrodollar hegemony by establishing their own trading and banking infrastructure that excludes dollars for trade. Suddenly Iran is now a world power and as you said at the conference, the dollar support is not trade or oil, but where big money parks.<\/p>\n

My question is, just how can these people sleep at night putting out false information all the time? Isn\u2019t that what the investment banks pled guilty to putting out false forecasts to support their own positions during the Dotcom bubble?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ANSWER:<\/strong> Yes, you are correct. It is one thing to put out analysis that is unbiased and it is raw corruption to put out forecasts that support your own investments creating a conflict of interest. It would not be a criminal act as long as they disclose what their portfolio is. Only\u00a0the government gets a free get out of jail card for fake forecasts.<\/p>\n

The decline in commodities was was due to a number of factors,\u00a0including an economic slowdown in China, a severe recession in Brazil, with falling prices for oil and other commodities, and exchange rate volatility that saw the dollar rise. Despite positive growth in trade volume terms, the current dollar value\u00a0of world merchandise exports declined by 14%\u00a0in 2015,\u00a0to US$ 16.0 trillion, as export prices fell by 15%. Even the dollar value of world commercial services exports also fell 6%\u00a0in 2015 to US$ 4.7 trillion, although the decline was less severe than\u00a0for merchandise.<\/p>\n

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Is the Dollar Really a Petrodollar anymore? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I want to thank you so much for shedding light on what can only be deranged forecasts on the dollar and gold and never change regardless of how much money they lose people year after year. I received this email with the headline\u00a0How Much Longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,151,374,5479,626,839],"class_list":["post-28077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-commodities","tag-gold","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-petrodollar","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28078,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28077\/revisions\/28078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}