28 Mar
World stuck with the dollar, more’s the pity
By: James Saft
The dollar is, and will remain, the U.S.’s currency and its own and everyone else’s problem.
The idea of creating a global currency, as espoused by China earlier this week, is interesting, has a certain amount of merit and is simply not going to happen any time soon.
U.S. desire for free access to the cookie jar that being the world’s reserve currency represents will be too strong, especially given its need to finance huge amounts of debt reasonably cheaply. As well practicalities are fearsome, even if consensus was more or less there.
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