The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies

The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies







Michael Snyder, Contributor
Activist Post

By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities
are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar. The rest of
the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to
give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air. When
that happens, it is going to be absolutely catastrophic for the U.S.
economy. Right now, we export a lot of our inflation.

Each year, we buy far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us,
and so the rest of the world ends up with giant piles of U.S.
dollars. This works out pretty well for them, because the U.S. dollar
is the primary reserve currency of the world and is used in
international trade far more than any other currency is. Back in 1999,
the percentage of foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollars peaked at 71 percent, and since then it has slid back to 62.2 percent. But that is still an overwhelming amount.

We can print, borrow and spend like crazy because the rest of the world
is there to soak up our excess dollars because they need them to trade
with one another. But what will happen someday if the rest of the
world decides to reject the U.S. dollar? At that point we would see a
tsunami of U.S. dollars come flooding back to this country. Just take a
moment and think of the worst superstorm that you can possibly
imagine, and then replace every drop of rain with a dollar bill. The
giant currency superstorm that will eventually hit this nation will be
far worse than that.

Most Americans don't realize that there are far more
dollars in use in the rest of the world than in the United States
itself. The following is from a scholarly article by Linda Goldberg...
<blockquote>
The dollar is a major form of cash currency around the world. The
majority of dollar banknotes are estimated to be held outside the US.
More than 70% of hundred-dollar notes and nearly 60% of twenty- and
fifty-dollar notes are held abroad, while two-thirds of all US
banknotes have been in circulation outside the country since 1990</blockquote>



For decades we have been exporting gigantic quantities of our currency.

So what would happen if that process suddenly reversed and massive piles of dollars started coming back into the country?

It is frightening to think about.

Well, I guess the key is to get the rest of the world to continue to
have confidence in the U.S. dollar so that will never happen, right?

Unfortunately, there are lots of signs that the rest of the world is accelerating their move away from the U.S. dollar.

For example, it was recently announced that the BRICS countries are developing their own version of the World Bank...
<blockquote>
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc has
begun planning its own development bank and a new bailout fund which
would be created by pooling together an estimated $240 billion in
foreign exchange reserves, according to diplomatic sources. To get a
sense of how significant the proposed fund would be, the fund would be
larger than the combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about 150
countries, according to Russia and India Report.</blockquote>
And as I noted in a previous article,
over the past few years there have been a whole host of new
international currency agreements that encourage the use of national
currencies over the U.S. dollar.

The following are just a few examples...

1. China and Germany (See Here)
2. China and Russia (See Here)
3. China and Brazil (See Here)
4. China and Australia (See Here)
5. China and Japan (See Here)
6. India and Japan (See Here)
7. Iran and Russia (See Here)
8. China and Chile (See Here)
9. China and the United Arab Emirates (See Here)
10. China, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa (See Here)

Will this movement soon become a stampede away from the U.S. dollar?

That is a very important question.

But you don't hear anything about this in the U.S. media and our politicians are not talking about this at all.

Meanwhile, our "leaders" seem to be doing everything that they can to
destroy confidence in the U.S. dollar. The Federal Reserve is printing money like there is no tomorrow, and the federal government continues to run up trillion dollar deficits year after year.

They do not seem to understand that they are systematically destroying the U.S. financial system.
Other world leaders get it. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin once said the following...
<blockquote>

Unreasonable expansion of the budget deficit, accumulation of the
national debt – are as destructive as an adventurous stock market game.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>

During the time of the Soviet Union the role of the state in economy
was made absolute, which eventually lead to the total
non-competitiveness of the economy. That lesson cost us very dearly. I
am sure no one would want history to repeat itself.
</blockquote>
Wow.

Why can't most of our politicians see how destructive debt is?

What the federal government continues to do is absolutely insane. The national debt increased by more than 24 billion dollars
on the day after Thanksgiving this year. But utter disaster has not
struck yet, and most Americans are not really that concerned about the
debt. So things just keep rolling along.

And of course our national debt of $16,309,738,056,362.44 is nothing
when compared to the future liabilities that our federal government is
facing. Just check out what a recent article in the Wall Street Journal had to say about all this...
<blockquote>
The actual liabilities of the federal government—including Social
Security, Medicare, and federal employees' future retirement
benefits—already exceed $86.8 trillion, or 550% of GDP. For the year
ending Dec. 31, 2011, the annual accrued expense of Medicare and Social
Security was $7 trillion. Nothing like that figure is used in
calculating the deficit. In reality, the reported budget deficit is
less than one-fifth of the more accurate figure.</blockquote>
Other
economists paint an even gloomier picture. According to economist
Niall Ferguson, the U.S. government is facing future unfunded
liabilities of 238 trillion dollars.

So where are we going to get all that money?

Well, why don't we just print more money than ever before so that the
U.S. government can borrow and spend more money than ever before?

Don't laugh. That is actually what some of the top economists in the country are actually recommending.

The most famous economic journalist in the entire country, Paul Krugman
of the New York Times, is boldly proclaiming that the solution to all
of our problems is to print, borrow and spend a lot more money. He
insists that there is no reason to fear that the giant mountain of debt that we are accumulating will someday collapse the system...
<blockquote>
For we have our own currency — and almost all of our debt, both
private and public, is denominated in dollars. So our government,
unlike the Greek government, literally can’t run out of money. After
all, it can print the stuff. So there’s almost no risk that America
will default on its debt — I’d say no risk at all if it weren’t for the
possibility that Republicans would once again try to hold the nation
hostage over the debt ceiling. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
But if the U.S. government prints money to pay its bills, won’t that
lead to inflation? No, not if the economy is still depressed. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
Now, it’s true that investors might start to expect higher inflation
some years down the road. They might also push down the value of the
dollar. Both of these things, however, would actually help rather than
hurt the U.S. economy right now: expected inflation would discourage
corporations and families from sitting on cash, while a weaker dollar
would make our exports more competitive.</blockquote>
Of course what he is prescribing is complete and utter madness.

At some point this con game is going to collapse and the rest of the
world is going to say a big, fat, resounding "NO" to the U.S. dollar.

Why should they continue to use a currency that is becoming extremely unstable and that is constantly being manipulated?

And when the rest of the world rejects the U.S. dollar, the value of
the dollar will drop like a rock because there will be far less global
demand for it.

In addition, if the rest of the world is not using the U.S. dollar for
trade any longer, other nations will cease to soak up our excess
currency and huge mountains of our currency that are floating around out
there will start flooding back to our shores.

At that point we will be looking at inflation unlike anything we have
ever seen before. The era of cheap imports will be over and we will
pay far more for everything from oil to the foreign-made plastic
trinkets that we buy at Wal-Mart.





Most Americans don't even know what a "reserve currency" is, but when
the U.S. dollar loses reserve currency status it is going to unleash a
nightmare that most economists cannot even imagine.

So enjoy this holiday season while you can. There are still lots and lots of cheap imports filling the shelves of our stores.

Once the coming giant currency superstorm strikes, we will dearly wish for the good old days of 2012.

Yes, the U.S. dollar is alive and ticking for now. But at the pace
that our authorities are abusing it, I would not say that things are
looking good for a long and healthy lifespan.

Source:
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/11/the-giant-currency-superstorm-that-is.html