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London Stock Trader Urges Move to 'AMERO'
World Net Daily ^ | 11/28/06 | Jerome R. Corsi

Posted on 11/28/2006 6:10:53 AM PST by Kimberly GG

In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the "amero," a coming North American currency, he said, that "will have a big impact on everybody's life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."

Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero "is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."

The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a "borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero."

Previs told the television audience many Canadians are "upset" about the amero. Most Americans outside of Texas largely are unaware of the amero or the plans to integrate North America, Previs observed, claiming many are just "putting their head in the sand" over the plans.

CNBC asked Previs whether he thought NAFTA was "working and doing enough."

He replied: "Until it created a lot of illegal immigrants coming across the border. I don't know. You get the pros and cons on NAFTA. For some people it is a good thing, and for other people it has been a disaster."

The speculation on the future of a new North American currency came amid a major U.S. dollar sell-off worldwide that began last week.

Yesterday, the dollar also reached new multi-month low against the euro, breaking through the $1.30 per euro technical high that had held since April 2005.

At the same time, the Chinese central bank set the yuan at 7.0402 per dollar, the highest level since Beijing established a new currency exchange system in 2005 that severed China's previous policy of tying the value of the yuan to the U.S. dollar.

Many analysts worldwide attributed the dramatic fall in the value of the U.S. dollar at least partially to China's announcement last week that it would seek to diversify its foreign exchange currency holdings away from the U.S. dollar. China recently has crossed the threshold of holding $1 trillion in U.S. dollar foreign-exchange reserves, surpassing Japan as the largest holder in the world.

Barry Ritholtz, chief market strategist for Ritholtz Research & Analytics in New York City, in a phone interview with WND, characterized today's downward move of the dollar as "wackage," a new word he coined to convey that the dollar is being "whacked" in this current market movement.

Ritholtz told WND that yesterday's downward move "was a major market correction that points to the risk of subsequent downside to the dollar."

Asked whether he would characterize the dollar's downside move as signaling a possible collapse, Mr Ritholtz told WND, "Not yet."

Ritholtz pointed out market professionals had long looked at a dollar collapse as a "low probability event," but the recent fall suggests "the probabilities have increased of a major dollar correction, or even of a collapse."

U.S. trade imbalances with China have hit a record $228 billion this year, largely reflecting a surging flow of containers from China with retail goods headed for the U.S. mass market.

Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez is in Bejing leading a trade delegation of more than two dozen U.S. business executives.

"The future should be focused on exporting to China," Guiterrez told reporters in Bejing, noting that this year, U.S. exports to China are up 34 percent on a year-to-year basis, surpassing last year's gain of 20 percent.

One way to improve the U.S. trade imbalance may be to ease up on restrictions of exporting high-tech products and allowing technology transfers to China, a move likely to be politically charged in the U.S.

The decline in value of the dollar will also make U.S. exports more attractive and Chinese exports to the U.S. more expensive.

In February 2007, a virtually unprecedented top-level U.S. economic mission is scheduled to travel to China. Included in the mission are Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Previs declined to be interviewed for this article, telling WND in an e-mail he did not want to be quoted directly in any article that may express a political point of view.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy
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To: tmp02
The Treasury is not going to document something that doesn't exist. End of discussion.

Ivan

221 posted on 11/29/2006 11:48:37 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan
Of course such a thing couldn't happen in secret. But the groundwork could be laid in secret. I envy you, my friend. Trust is calming and relaxing. I don't trust any official running any kind of government. I have reasons.

As I said, we'll see what happens.

222 posted on 11/29/2006 11:49:56 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell
Of course such a thing couldn't happen in secret. But the groundwork could be laid in secret. I envy you, my friend. Trust is calming and relaxing. I don't trust any official running any kind of government. I have reasons.

It has nothing to do with trust - I lived in the Netherlands and Belgium during the final phases of the switchover. It was a massive undertaking - it is not something that could be done in the dead of night. Not the groundwork, not the regulatory framework, not anything near the infrastructure required. It is a huge, difficult business and the idea that somehow it could be delivered like a birthday surprise is totally crazy.

Ivan

223 posted on 11/29/2006 11:52:39 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; MadIvan
mult-modal = multi-modal Geesh!
224 posted on 11/29/2006 12:35:39 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Mashed potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce! Wooooooo-oooooooo!)
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To: MadIvan

You misspelled "Previs". You spelled it Previn.


225 posted on 11/29/2006 12:58:20 PM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: texastoo
The same parameters hold with Previs.

Ivan

226 posted on 11/29/2006 12:59:04 PM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan

>The Treasury is not going to document something that >doesn't exist. End of discussion.
>
>Ivan


So then there are no reasonable facts that you have or exist that the Amero will(or will not) be set up as the currency in the US. Of course the Treasury won't have docs. It is not in process at the Treasury yet. Some guy in EU is pushing for it. I don't ever want the Treasure to have any information about the Amero except that it was defeated as a choice of currency.

You have just lost.


227 posted on 11/29/2006 1:49:37 PM PST by tmp02
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To: calcowgirl
I yelled because I asked you a VERY simple question and instead of getting back a simple answer, you responded with convoluted mewlings about how you weren't attacking MadIvan, how many "hits" you got back in response ( most of which had nothing at all to do with either Previs or Jeffries International as a financial firm ), and such. After several of the same kind of huey, I tried to get just a simple answer....which you still have not supplied.

Previs, though now a Senior V.P. at Jeffires, according to what was written in one place, in your link, isn't an "insider" in the Bush administration. He doesn't have a post at Treasury. He's a TRADER, who sporadically has some things he's talked about picked up by outside blogs and snippets posted. Is he a KOOK? Only a KOOK would have said what he did about a nonexistent, highly implausible new currency...the "amero".

228 posted on 11/29/2006 2:01:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: MadIvan

bttt


229 posted on 11/29/2006 2:05:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: tmp02
You have just lost.

You are full of excrement.

Ivan

230 posted on 11/29/2006 2:05:34 PM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

And he's basically an OIL TRADER! LOL


231 posted on 11/29/2006 2:07:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: MadIvan

Please forgive me if I offended you. It was wrong to be so aggressive.


232 posted on 11/29/2006 2:14:14 PM PST by tmp02
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To: tmp02
You have just lost.

Says the guy who doesn't understand commodity backed currencies. LOL!

233 posted on 11/29/2006 2:25:06 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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To: nopardons
And he's basically an OIL TRADER!

Maybe he talked to Bush and Cheney at the last "Top Secret Oil Price Manipulation Meeting" that the CFR holds every year.

234 posted on 11/29/2006 2:27:19 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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To: hedgetrimmer
Well, it looks like it's a way off and there are quite a few barriers to overcome, but there are definitely some folks rallying for a single currency, not just Robert Pastor. This piece on integration of our agricultural markets was also quite interesting and touches on establishing a monetary union. Below is a snip from the executive summary--the heart of the discussion is on pages 22 through 28.
North American Agricultural Market Integration and Its Impact on the Food and Fiber System.
By Thomas L. Vollrath, Market and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 784.
September 2003

(snip)

A common North American currency would increase price transparency, lower transaction costs, and promote integration of continental markets. However, the choice between retaining flexible exchange rates among the NAFTA countries or creating a monetary union between and/or among the United States, Canada, and Mexico has far-reaching ramifications that transcend the single issue of market integration. Policymakers are faced with a tradeoff in making this decision. Is the enhanced efficiency of a single currency worth surrendering the use of national monetary policy to address domestic economic shocks?

235 posted on 11/29/2006 2:28:22 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: July 4th

There happens to be a great instrumental/experimental band called "The American Dollar"...

http://www.myspace.com/americandollarband

http://theamericandollar.info/


236 posted on 11/29/2006 2:31:23 PM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Head-On...Apply Directly To The Forehead, Head-On...Apply Directly To The Forehead")
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw....he never was at any of those meetings; I would have remembered! :-)


237 posted on 11/29/2006 2:31:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: My Favorite Headache

You have a good read on my musical tastes.


238 posted on 11/29/2006 2:36:55 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: nopardons
All of your posts to me are completely unrelated to my original post to TSR who implied Previs was not associated with Jefferies. Google searches demonstrate that he is indeed associated with Jefferies, currently as a Senior Vice President, and has appeared on CNBC and is quoted in articles by Forbes, CNN, the Boston Globe, etc. That was the only point I was making. My original post stands:
>>Jefferies is real, but Steve Previs could be a kook masquerading as a board member, a mythical fart in the wind, or something else entirely.

Funny... I got over 20 hits for Steve Previs and Jeffries, at Forbes.com alone.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:www.forbes.com+steve+previs


239 posted on 11/29/2006 2:58:54 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: hedgetrimmer
"Sounds kind of like NAFTA, NAFTA plus and the SPP, don't it?"

Indeed it does. Despite what has by now become a virtual mountain of evidence on the nefarious NAU activities, FR's tiny band of deniers and debunkers will continue to insist there is really nothing going on here.

240 posted on 11/29/2006 3:10:00 PM PST by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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