The US dollar has served in the role of world reserve currency since 1944, but there is nothing intrinsic about the US dollar which requires that it – and not some other, new currency – continue to fulfill that function. If anything, the long-term secular decline in the greenback since 2001, coupled with much more [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Less than a week after it was rejected in Europe, Chinese Central Bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan’s controversial proposal for a new global reserve currency has apparently been accepted by the UN.
According to the Sunday Telegraph on March 29, 2009, “A United Nations panel of economists has proposed a new global currency reserve that [...]