Comments on: China Uneasy About Proportion of Holdings in U.S. Treasuries

By: mjB

mjB — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:44:31 +0000

Hyperinflation and the crash of the Keynesian model could be in the offing soon if the Chinese drastically draw down.

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Currency, Economy Between China and US 2003 « My Blog — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:46:14 +0000

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By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:25:23 +0000

China should be worried about their dangerous over investment in US Treasury obligations. Washington ’s long-term choice is either repudiation or monetization. For monetization to be effective, the depreciation in the dollar would have to be substantial and this in turn would dramatically raise prices of imports for American consumers which would mean a tremendous drop in foreign imports. Debt monetization would cause more disruption to exporting nations than selective repudiation of Treasury debt.

Washington has bailed out the banks, Wall Street & their Washington special interests and much of the cost is added to the national debt to by paid by this and future generations while real estate and investments continue to fall. Find out what a growing repudiate the debt movement could mean for treasury bonds, the dollar, gold and the stock market.

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Thanks, Ron

By: Fazal Majid

Fazal Majid — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:49:30 +0000

The question is not whether the US government will honor its debts, it’s whether the dollars the debt is denominated in will be worth anything at maturity.

The US is unique in its “exorbitant privilege” (to paraphrase De Gaulle) of borrowing in its own currency. It could cheat and inflate its debt into nothingness. This would of course destroy the dollar as the international currency of reference, something which brings an extra 2-3% growth to the US, and not too likely, but neither was dropping the gold standard.

It’s not inconceivable that at some point the Chinese may demand US treasuries denominated in euros or yens.