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ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Banks Consider Dropping US Dollar, Euro and Yen, Indonesia Calls for Phasing Out Visa and Mastercard
https://www.aseanbriefing.com ^ | March 29, 2023 | Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Posted on 04/05/2023 12:32:14 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: dodger

Deliberate, these pukes in government want the digital currency so they can hang us with it if we don’t behave, jus t like the bastard son in Canada did to the truckers and their families


21 posted on 04/05/2023 2:39:37 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: yuleeyahoo

This mis-administration needs to find a way to deflate the economy. What better way than to force digital currency on us. That way they could remove 50% of everyone’s bank accounts without your knowledge, authorization or permission, and thus shrink the economy easily. They really think it would work and that we would just roll over for it. SMDH


22 posted on 04/05/2023 2:48:49 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: RomanSoldier19

It’s a good time to buy some SLV and some physical silver.


23 posted on 04/05/2023 3:09:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dodger

The Authorities act like this is nothing. What do they know we don’t? This isn’t TEOTWAWKI. We’ll be more like the UK after they lost their status with a little East Germany thrown in.


24 posted on 04/05/2023 3:56:55 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: 2banana

What does that mean? Sorry I’ve heard this term “weaponizing the dollar” lately but dont understand what it means.


25 posted on 04/05/2023 4:28:48 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! Will it be nullification or secession???)
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To: yuleeyahoo; Myrddin

This ⬆️
I watch Neil McCoy-Ward on YouTube and the read the Solari report.

It’s amazing how the corporate news media (government propaganda media) are screeching on and on about the Trump arrest circus and barely a peep about something that has the potential to destroy this country quicker than a world war.


26 posted on 04/05/2023 4:32:59 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! Will it be nullification or secession???)
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To: boxlunch
Sorry I’ve heard this term “weaponizing the dollar” lately but dont understand what it means.

It's what we did to the Russians. Denied them access to BIS and SWIFT so they couldn't conduct commerce with parties that demanded use of the USD as the "reserve currency". Forcing everyone to purchase petroleum products in USD ONLY. Those practices are getting neutered by BRICS and new agreements to settle purchases in the local currency of each country conducting business transactions without using the US Dollar as the medium of exchange. Commerce is being "de-dollarized". US Dollars held for commerce are being exchanged for goods and services from the US and not being replaced with new US Dollars for future transactions.

27 posted on 04/05/2023 4:57:07 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DoughtyOne

I totally agree. It’s always amazing when the gold bugs jump in, but there is a funny thing about the future: no one can predict it … except by shear, dumb luck.

If the dollar loses reserve status, then by default, it will fluctuate against other nations’ currencies. When that happens, overseas goods will become more expensive to Americans, and Americans may even have to curtail their international travel.

How then, will those other nations maintain their economies?

Localized trade perhaps, but I am willing to bet we will quickly see American companies bringing manufacturing back home since it will be cheaper to produce here than it will be to produce ‘there’.


28 posted on 04/05/2023 4:57:10 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: beancounter13

So there might be an upside to this, as long as we can prevent the CBDC from being imposed to “save us”.


29 posted on 04/05/2023 5:34:15 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! Will it be nullification or secession???)
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To: Myrddin

Ok thank you! I knew part of it was exporting our inflation by having all the countries using USD, so printing money to solve our debt problems gets spread out onto other countries, but didn’t get that other part of it.


30 posted on 04/05/2023 5:35:57 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! Will it be nullification or secession???)
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To: boxlunch

Perhaps, but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon. Much might be said that China completed its first purchase of LNG using the Yuan rather than the dollar, but I am not so impressed. As long as Yuan is pegged to the dollar, then that purchase was still based on the dollar.

Until the CCP allows the Yuan to float against the dollar, the dollar still rules. I don’t foresee the CCP allowing that to happen because the US market for their cheap goods would collapse.

Think about it this way: if the Yuan and the dollar were at parity, everything made in China would go up by a factor of 8. Americans would then either make those products themselves or simply do without.


31 posted on 04/05/2023 7:38:23 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: griswold3

Indeed. Those were really crushing time in the UK post-WW2. But theirs was still a unified tribal nation with a culture of honor and dignity. Ours is now one of identity grievance and victimhood.

It will not be pretty.


32 posted on 04/05/2023 8:41:21 PM PDT by dodger
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To: beancounter13

That’s a really interesting perspective. Where does the factor of 8 come from. Sorry, I’m just starting to try to learn and understand more about all this.


33 posted on 04/05/2023 8:43:29 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! Will it be nullification or secession???)
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To: beancounter13

Thanks...

Good points in there > IMO.


34 posted on 04/06/2023 12:33:44 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: boxlunch

The factor of 8 is from the exchange rate: 8 Yuan = 1 Dollar (currently 6.78 Yuan to 1 Dollar).

If China manages to convince the world to trade in Yuan, it will have to decouple the Yuan from the dollar at some point. When that happens the Yuan will rise, and everything made in China will become more expensive by default.

People can talk about how bad it is since the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, but no other nation wants to have that responsibility. The world’s reserve currency will always be at a competitive disadvantage when compared to the other economies. This is why so many American jobs have moved overseas.


35 posted on 04/06/2023 5:27:11 AM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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