{"id":54420,"date":"2020-07-27T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54420"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:47:34","slug":"what-default-where-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54420","title":{"rendered":"What? Default? Where? Dollar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What? Default? Where? Dollar?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It won\u2019t come as a surprise to anyone that the first half of 2020 has brought, among many other things, renewed calls for the demise of the US dollar. It\u2019s been pretty much a non-stop call for over a decade now, and longer. But this time, like all previous ones, I\u2019m thinking: I don\u2019t see it. I guess my first question is always: please explain why the dollar would collapse before the euro does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one thing, the dollar would have to collapse\/default against one or more \u201centities\u201d. The dollar is not like one of those highrises that collapse upon themselves. It will have to default or collapse against something(s) else. Since it is the world reserve currency, that means there would have to be a replacement reserve currency. Yes, that could also be for example gold or SDR\u2019s, or even a basket of currencies, and something like that may happen eventually, but it doesn\u2019t appear in the cards in the short run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are really only two candidates for the role, and neither looks at all fit to play it. The euro may have some ambitions in that direction, but it has far too many problems still. The yuan\/renminbi certainly has such ambitions, but the Communist party refuses to let it get on stage to show what it\u2019s got. As I recently wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main sticking point for Beijing is a conundrum it cannot solve. The CCP wants to have BOTH a global currency AND total control over that currency. It will have to choose between the two, and cannot make up its mind. So it pretends it doesn\u2019t have to choose. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What? Default? Where? Dollar? It won\u2019t come as a surprise to anyone that the first half of 2020 has brought, among many other things, renewed calls for the demise of the US dollar. It\u2019s been pretty much a non-stop call for over a decade now, and longer. But this time, like all previous ones, I\u2019m […]<\/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":[130,150,200,25472,212,279,280,1721,374,437,13924,679,1085,5177,834,1031],"class_list":["post-54420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-collapse","tag-default","tag-demise","tag-dollar","tag-eu","tag-euro","tag-fx-reserves","tag-gold","tag-international-trade","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-reserve-currency","tag-sdr","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-us","tag-yuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54420","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=54420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54421,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54420\/revisions\/54421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}