{"id":37072,"date":"2018-08-26T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37072"},"modified":"2018-08-26T07:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:33:57","slug":"turkeys-crisis-and-the-dollars-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37072","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Crisis and the Dollar’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s Crisis and the Dollar’s Future<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Last week\u2019s collapse of the Turkish lira has dominated the headlines, and it is widely reported that this and other emerging market currencies are in trouble because of the withdrawal of dollar liquidity. There are huge quantities of footloose dollars betting against these weak currencies, as well as commodities and gold, on the basis the long-expected squeeze on dollar liquidity is finally upon us.<\/div>\n
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Doubtless Triffin\u2019s dilemma is dominating these speculators\u2019 thoughts, telling them demand for the dollar as the reserve currency is infinite. This article points out that foreign financial entities as a whole already possess most of the excess liquidity created by monetary expansion of the dollar since the Lehman crisis. Admittedly, ownership of dollars is unlikely to be evenly distributed across correspondent banks representing all foreign nations. But this is no reason to say dollars are not under-owned by foreign users, and we must not forget dollars are also available in the foreign exchanges, as always, for credible buyers. Nor must we forget that the reason for the enormous quantity of currency derivatives ($75 trillion in US dollars alone1<\/a>) is that future demand for dollars is already significantly hedged.<\/p>\n

No, the reason certain EM currencies are losing purchasing power is the fault of individual governments and their central banks, who do not seem to realize that their unbacked fiat currencies are valued purely on trust, both that of their own people and on the foreign exchanges. And as we should know, trust is not something to be toyed with.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, comments that China is in trouble from trade tariffs and being undermined by a strong dollar are wide of the mark. Geopolitics dominates here. America\u2019s occasional successes in attacking the rouble and yuan are no more that transient pyrrhic victories.<\/p>\n

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Turkey’s Crisis and the Dollar’s Future Last week\u2019s collapse of the Turkish lira has dominated the headlines, and it is widely reported that this and other emerging market currencies are in trouble because of the withdrawal of dollar liquidity. There are huge quantities of footloose dollars betting against these weak currencies, as well as commodities […]<\/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":[7772,1976,1732,7617,818,8280,839],"class_list":["post-37072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alasdair-macleod","tag-currency-crisis","tag-emerging-markets","tag-mises-institute","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-lira","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072","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=37072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37073,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions\/37073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}