{"id":49897,"date":"2019-12-01T06:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49897"},"modified":"2019-12-01T06:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:54:28","slug":"americas-trade-policy-will-end-up-destroying-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49897","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmoney.com\/research\/goldmoney-insights\/america-s-trade-policy-will-end-up-destroying-the-dollar\">America\u2019s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>America\u2019s tariffs against China are already showing signs of undermining the global economy and will create a funding crisis for the Federal Government when it leads to foreigners no longer buying US Treasury debt and selling down their existing dollar holdings. A subversive attempt by America to divert global portfolio investment from China by destabilising Hong Kong will force China into a Plan B to fund its infrastructure plans, which could involve actively selling down her dollar reserves and hastening the introduction of a new crypto-based trade settlement currency.<\/strong><br><br><strong>The US budget deficit will then be financed entirely by monetary inflation. Furthermore, the turn of the credit cycle, made more destructive by trade tariffs, is driving the global and US economy into a slump, further accelerating all indebted governments\u2019 dependency on inflationary financing. The end result is America\u2019s trade policies have been instrumental in hastening the end of the dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency, ultimately leading to its destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For almost two years President Trump has imposed various tariffs on imported Chinese goods. He advertised his tactics as hardball from a tough president who knows the art of the deal, taking his business acumen and applying it to foreign affairs. He even proudly described himself as a tariff man.<br><br>His opening gambit was to impose tariffs on some goods to get leverage over the Chinese, with the threat that if they didn\u2019t cooperate, then further tariffs would be introduced. The Chinese declined to be cowed by threats, introducing tariffs themselves on US imports, particularly agricultural products, to bring pressure to bear in turn on President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar\u00a0 America\u2019s tariffs against China are already showing signs of undermining the global economy and will create a funding crisis for the Federal Government when it leads to foreigners no longer buying US Treasury debt and selling down their existing dollar holdings. A subversive attempt by America [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[7772,13061,538,3222,827,839],"class_list":["post-49897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-alasdair-macleod","tag-goldmoney-insights","tag-money-printing","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897","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=49897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49898,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions\/49898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}