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Call For Global Currency Wins International Backing
China Daily ^ | March 28, 2009 | By Wang Xu

Posted on 03/27/2009 8:06:12 PM PDT by Fennie

Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan's recent call to replace the US dollar with a new global currency is gaining traction within the international community.

Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor who heads a United Nations experts panel, said a reserve currency system based on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) unit instead of the US dollar, like what Zhou has proposed, could be phased in within a year.

Stiglitz's panel has issued a set of recommendations for global financial reforms, including a proposal for a new reserve system based on the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs) - a basket of currencies consisting of the euro, yen, sterling, and the US dollar.

(Excerpt) Read more at chinadaily.com.cn ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; economy; obama; russia; socialism; stiglitz
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1 posted on 03/27/2009 8:06:12 PM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie
(sigh)

The end is near anyways. Let's get this over with.

2 posted on 03/27/2009 8:07:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Fennie

Obama is pushing this way and Geitner slipped up exposing the actual goal.

CNBC had an actual nobel winning expert who said it was “inevitable” that the US go under the IMF.


3 posted on 03/27/2009 8:10:16 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Who was that nobel winner...Al Gore?


4 posted on 03/27/2009 8:12:33 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Fennie

Great Britain told the EU to stuff it; they still use the pound not the Euro. There is no reason that the U.S. shouldn’t say the same thing to this bunch of thugs; well, there wasn’t a reason before Zero took over.


5 posted on 03/27/2009 8:12:52 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Fennie

Geitner pushed this along. No one is watching!!!!!!


6 posted on 03/27/2009 8:19:42 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Fennie

Interesting points in the article.

Will U.S. financial woes lead to new world order?
By Adam Abrams

Is the U.S. about to lose its status as the dominant global superpower? Will the dollar collapse? If so, what would become the new global reserve currency and what would replace U.S. hegemony in a new world order?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074110.html


7 posted on 03/27/2009 8:20:48 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. — Samue)
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To: Texas Eagle

Nah, not yet, keep the faith in redneck America. If we gonna go down we gonna have some fun!


8 posted on 03/27/2009 8:21:06 PM PDT by cork (From my cold dead hands, with an empty clip, did my job!!)
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To: Fennie

They think we are suckers. They’ll print up their Monopoly money and ask people to accept it instead of the dollar. Heck, I’ll print up the “world currency” right here on my computer. I’ll print trillions and trillions of it, and everybody can use that to pay off all the debts. Don’t mind if I print some off for myself, too.


9 posted on 03/27/2009 8:23:49 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: cork; Fennie

“Nah, not yet, keep the faith in redneck America. If we gonna go down we gonna have some fun!”

Let’s have us a dumbass party before we go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_oLEkKGSc


10 posted on 03/27/2009 8:25:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Selah)
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To: cork
Nah, not yet, keep the faith in redneck America.

Technically speaking, I am keeping the faith. I'm looking forward to getting it over with because I know what comes afterwards.

11 posted on 03/27/2009 8:30:39 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: max americana

it was an ecconomist. It was some desk jockey expert in the 5-7am time during the weekdays.

he was very ivory tower educated stupid.


12 posted on 03/27/2009 8:31:15 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Texas Eagle

Ok I hear you and I believe, however in the meantime... Hold my beer and watch this


13 posted on 03/27/2009 8:33:47 PM PDT by cork (From my cold dead hands, with an empty clip, did my job!!)
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To: Fennie
This is a crock, and if we give in to the UN or the world bank or any other third world bunch we deserve what we get. Get these misfits out of OUR COUNTRY.
14 posted on 03/27/2009 8:36:12 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (Leyte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: Fennie

There was a time when the world did have a common unit for money. It was called “gold”. If they want back to that , I’d be happy.


15 posted on 03/27/2009 8:41:27 PM PDT by Nateman (FUBO and the Alinsky you rode in on!)
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To: Fennie

This is not why my father spent 4 years in the South Pacific in WW II.


16 posted on 03/27/2009 8:43:32 PM PDT by cork (From my cold dead hands, with an empty clip, did my job!!)
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To: Fennie

sounds like he saw the Easter bunny a little early


17 posted on 03/27/2009 9:15:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: cork

Do Americas get to vote on this or have any say in the matter?..after all, it is OUR money.


18 posted on 03/27/2009 9:25:22 PM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: Texas Eagle
You'd better double check your Scriptures. No man knoweth and I come quickly has a different meaning to man than God.

I for one won't wait like some death cult rapturist, not as long as I live or have children.

We've got to avoid being demoralized. That's not the purpose of earthly life or the Scriptures.

19 posted on 03/27/2009 9:43:12 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Fennie

War is most definitely coming. 5 years...


20 posted on 03/27/2009 9:49:37 PM PDT by MimirsWell (Scipio Pakistanus)
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