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World Bank welcomes new economic order from the ashes of crisis
The Guardian ^ | October 4, 2009 | Larry Elliott

Posted on 10/04/2009 12:47:54 AM PDT by myknowledge

• China and India set to become established global powers • Euro and renminbi tipped to join dollar as reserve currencies • Other developing economies predicted to flourish in recovery

The wrenching financial crisis of the past two years will provide the catalyst for a profound change in the global economy – which, according to the man running the World Bank, will see China and India become established centres of power, the dollar eclipsed as the sole reserve currency, and Latin America, south-east Asia and Africa emerge as new sources of growth.

But as he surveys the wreckage caused by what the bank and its sister organisation, the International Monetary Fund, agree is the most severe crisis since the devastation caused by the second world war, Robert Zoellick is surprisingly upbeat about the future.

Asked by the Observer how he envisages the global economy in 20 years' time, Zoellick says: "There will certainly be a larger role for the emerging powers, there will be multipolar sources of growth, there will be more south-south trade between developing countries.

"The crisis gives us the opportunity to hasten this process. If we are concerned about the past reliance for growth on the US consumer, we have to make sure consumers in developing countries have enough finance to buy."

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: imf; neweconomicorder; newworldorder; nwo; worldbank; zoellick
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A new economic order will be led by two rivals (China and India). The old economic order (led by the USA) will be gone soon.

The GFC was deliberately engineered to pave the way for the collapse of the greenback and empowerment of the euro.

1 posted on 10/04/2009 12:47:55 AM PDT by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge
"If we are concerned about the past reliance for growth on the US consumer, we have to make sure consumers in developing countries have enough finance to buy."

They are going to lend the money we gave to the fund and could not afford to third would countries in the form of loans so they can buy China's crappy stuff and get themselves shackled to credit bubble hell. It's a merry-go-round and somebody is not having much fun.

2 posted on 10/04/2009 1:00:08 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: Earthdweller
It's a merry-go-round and somebody is not having much fun.

Who is not having much fun?

3 posted on 10/04/2009 1:08:33 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: myknowledge
Just one problem. The renminbi is not even convertible.

It's so powerful it doesn't float on the wolrd market. It is so worthless it needs $2 trillion of hard currency in the bank (mostly in the form of foreign bonds and a little gold) to back up the entire Communist Chinese economy.

yitbos

4 posted on 10/04/2009 1:19:56 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: myknowledge
I'd say pretty much everyone will diss the ride when it's over...but yea..we took the credit to buy the crappy stuff and now we are going broke. Guess misery loves company. Why not draw some other countries in?/s

It's getting late and my sarcasm stinks. The entire point of the monetary fund is to set up a wealth distribution center but every Country will need to be brought to it's knees before the "bank" can swoop in and "fix" things for the needy. They will be working in concert with leftist world "regulators" of course.

Where have we seen that played out before?

5 posted on 10/04/2009 1:23:04 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: Earthdweller

I don’t know...where have we seen that played out before?


6 posted on 10/04/2009 1:31:24 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!")
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To: Earthdweller

Lose the sarcasm, and tell us what you think.

BTW. I’m not challenging you..I would love to know what you think.


7 posted on 10/04/2009 1:34:12 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!")
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To: myknowledge

which falls into line with the October 25th date of financial collapse that is being bandied about. Currency, commodity and digital trading is said to be locked up and some may never resume. Banks are said to close world wide, starting first here in the US. Look for members of the Obama administration in early November to travel the world with hat in hand looking for handouts to keep the whole thing going... But ultimately is will spell the death of the dollar.


8 posted on 10/04/2009 1:49:36 AM PDT by abigkahuna (Step on up folks and see the "Strange Thing" only a thin dollar, babies free)
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To: myknowledge

Wake me up when China and India have a vast Interstate highway system inter-connecting all points. Until that time they’re still 3rd world.


9 posted on 10/04/2009 3:53:15 AM PDT by The Duke ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
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To: The Duke
I agree 1st comment is far too final & fatalistic.

don't believe the hype.
10 posted on 10/04/2009 4:07:32 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: myknowledge
Now would be a great time to have a President who would defend our interests, our dollar, and our global leadership, while building a strong culture of life at home.

Great choice, America. /s

11 posted on 10/04/2009 4:11:06 AM PDT by cmj328 (Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a ObamaCare--or lose reelection)
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To: The Duke

“Wake me up when China and India have a vast Interstate highway system inter-connecting all points. Until that time they’re still 3rd world.”

Good morning...


From Wikipedia:

Originally, China had been carrying out an ambitious plan to build up a 35,000 kilometer national trunk highway system before 2020. The main objective of the NTHS was to construct 12 high standard trunk roads: five longitudinal roads and seven latitudinal roads. 70% of the trunk roads are expressways. This project has been completed by the end of 2007, 13 years ahead of the original plan. [5] By the end of 2007, there were already 3.57 million km of highways, which includes 53,600 km (33,310 miles) of expressways. [5]

On January 13, 2005, it was announced by Zhang Chunxian, minister of communications, that China will build a network of 85,000 km expressways over the next three decades, connecting all provincial capitals and cities with a population of over 200,000. Of this total length, 68,000 km are trunk roads and 17,000 km are 5 regional ring roads. There are also 2 parallel routes and more than 30 connecting links. 32,000 km of expressway are to be built in central and western regions.


This is part of the reason that China is now producing and using something like one third of the world’s steel and concrete.

At some point Americans will wake up and realize that these guys mean business. That had a news story about locals blocking a highway a few months ago, complaining about something. I didn’t care about their cause, but the highway looked incredible...and it was truly just a random location.


12 posted on 10/04/2009 5:45:00 AM PDT by BobL
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To: myknowledge

Americans still don’t really know 0bama has ushered this in nor will they until the market crashes soon and all of the pictures of his anniversary date night and oprah’s fat butt are released.


13 posted on 10/04/2009 7:23:46 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: myknowledge

For all those who thought India was our ally.

They are ChiComs in drag.


14 posted on 10/04/2009 7:27:48 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'd rather be a teabagger than an ankle-grabber.)
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To: myknowledge
Globalist are moving right along with the destruction of U.S. sovereignty and power on the world stage.

Open borders

Outsourcing American wealth by de-industrializing the U.S. economy

Erosion of the American standard of living through compensation decline commensurate to the rest of the 3rd world.

Devaluation of the dollar through years of federal financial mismanagement.

Allowing a private banking cartel (federal reserve) dictate in secret our monetary policy.

Unfair / lopsided trade negotiations. Nafta, Gatt, Cafta.

Shall I go on.

Whether we get there rapidly or on a slower pace, socialism appears to be the target of the liberal left as well as the global elite.

Kill American sovereignty, the U.S. economy and dollar...usher in a new world currency and global governance.

Sounds like a book I've read.

The Holy Bible.

15 posted on 10/04/2009 7:40:08 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: abigkahuna
Please post all your specific sources of info you used to arrive at these claims.

Thank you.

16 posted on 10/04/2009 8:14:04 AM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: servantboy777

Well said, nice synopsis.


17 posted on 10/04/2009 8:35:29 AM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: Beloved Levinite
Thanx,appreciate your patience with the soap box rant.

I'm just taken back by the overwhelming support of the two party system in this country.

If somethings not working....try something that might.

Think outta the box.

What I fear most is that folks will continue to buy in to these professional politicians (oligarchs).

The democrat party has been high-jacked by the socialist, the republican party has been taken by the globalist elite.

These two systems are NOT diametrically opposed as one might superficially perceive.

If one looks deeper, the news behind the news, you will see the true democrats and true republicans of twenty years ago, the real American statesmen, battling to recapture their parties from foreign and domestic lobbyist with power and money underpinnings.

Ok, anyone gotta cigarette? ;)

18 posted on 10/04/2009 9:04:38 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: myknowledge

And Satan laughs......


19 posted on 10/04/2009 9:17:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: servantboy777
These two systems are NOT diametrically opposed as one might superficially perceive.

There is no advantage to China undercutting us either politically or commercially until they are a self-sustaining economy, i.e., an economy where the Chinese buy all the useless plastic objects they produce.

20 posted on 10/04/2009 9:20:44 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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