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US Economy in "Relentless" Decline
Analysts say dollar will continue to slide no matter what
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Economic experts have predicted a continuing slump for the dollar,
no matter what the federal reserve does. Others have suggested
the dollar's decline is now relentless and will only be accelerated
as other countries abandon it for stronger reserve currencies.
“The relentless slide in the dollar against
other major currencies, notably the euro, is encouraging speculation
that Asian countries and oil producers will step up diversification
of their reserve assets out of the US currency, accelerating its
decline,” Capital Economics' Julian Jessop has
written today.
While Jessop states that the The dollar’s
fall has been and will be further driven by a slowing US economy
and not by reserve asset diversification, others are not so convinced.
Despite the fact that the Fed has today cut
interest rates by a quarter point, analysts at Market
Watch believe the dollar is to continue on a downward
spiral now, no matter what:
"Whether the Fed cuts its benchmark a quarter
percentage point, as expected, or a half-point --or even not at
all -- the dollar is likely to bear the near-term brunt of the
market's kneejerk reaction either way, and then move in one direction:
down." Lisa Twaronite states.
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Regardless of whether or not the Fed cuts rates,
"the dollar is in for a beating," said Marilyn McDonald,
marketing director at Interbank FX.
"The U.S. dollar is finally in trouble. For
quite some time now, it has been one of the top five yielding
currencies among the [Group of 10 industrialized] nations, which
is why it has been used in the carry trade for so long,"
she said.
Carry trades involve borrowing lower-yielding currencies, such
as the yen, and investing it in higher-yielding assets. The dollar
has long benefited from such trades, but the benefits are dropping
in line with U.S. interest rates.
While the vast majority of analysts agree that the markets are
in deep trouble and the dollar is weak due to relatively poor
economic fundamentals, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has
said that financial markets are recovering from the subprime crisis.
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Paulson again echoed previous sentiments of the
IMF, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, stating that while it was
"definitely the case" that innovation in U.S. capital
markets had gotten ahead of regulatory controls, contributing
to the crisis, such innovation remained desirable.
"I don't think we would want it the other way around. If
we had it the other way around, we'd be sacrificing growth and
efficiency in the markets."
They have all continually badmouthed the dollar, claiming it
is "overvalued" despite the fact it has lost over half
of its value against the Euro since 2001. The IMF, despite acknowledging
"the likelihood of a disorderly plunge in the dollar"
and contrary to pleas from Europe has given the green light for
traders to continue to sell the dollar.
In their World Economic Outlook brief, the IMF brazenly states
that the agenda in continually badmouthing the dollar is to exalt
the Chinese Renminbi in order to contribute to "a necessary
rebalancing of demand and to an orderly unwinding of global imbalances."
In layman's terms, this means lowering the living standards of
the American middle class by tanking the dollar and sending
oil prices skyrocketing towards $200, as part of
the "post-industrial revolution" agreed upon by the
Bilderberg Group. This would eviscerate the middle class and create
a two-caste system based upon the Chinese model, where the super-rich
live in opulence and the rest of the population are forced to
struggle on the poverty line.
Meanwhile analysts at EconomicsBriefing.com have
pointed out that while the UN is warning of ballooning food prices
and the possibility of food
riots, no one is saying or doing anything about the
primary cause, US federal reserve encouraged, worldwide central
bank monetary expansion.
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