Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
https://archive.is/2025.04.17-042647/https://www.ft.com/content/73294414-8cdc-4298-a46a-e548253c90c0
Yes.
I expected this exact comment reading the headline, nice :D
Uh.. duh?
It's also worth keeping in mind that if the USD/CNY exchange rate fell in line with the two countries' PPP, China would be biggest economy in the world by a margin of nearly 30%.
Almighty? I still can't figure out why some places don't take 50's and 100's at this point. 100's might be a bit more than a 10 from my youth but they don't quite equate to a 20 and places would take 20's back then.
Nah man, it's just that a bunch of us decided that these sea shells are more valuable.
They don't know about the three seashells!
I just like wampum.
Maybe because they’re kinda raw-dogeing it?
Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
Big pal Putin didn't hesitate to use gas and oil as a weapon. Trump tries to do the same with trade and the dollar. Run away fast is the only answer.
Happy cake day
So how are Americans supposed to protect their savings and investments?
That's the neat part, you don't.
Welcome to the third world guys.
that would not be so hard if it was not coupled with a scenario where people need to protect them and also draw down on them. Thats where it really gets tough.
Well, you will have lots of toilet paper for the next pandemic.
Trump coin /s
Trump is sabotaging the US on purpose, for the benefit of his handlers.
The dollar? I think the world lost faith in all that is in any way connected to America.
Which makes me sit back in my seat and go:
"What is the endgame?"
Our future, if unchanged is a reversion to right around industrialization, but without any industry.
So we're all to be imprisoned in the machine of capitalism, feet chained and bound into making wooden bowls and clothes we used to get cheaply but no longer can?
But then, how do the elite profit from a country with no profit? Do they just sit on the hill and own it? Their world sounds depressing and devoid of any sort of enjoyment. Trump wants to be King Shit, on a hill of ashes.
The sweatshop of America cometh.
Poor people will join the military.... With that the military will continue to conquer the world. From there Idk...
I think for the future... Extreme idealism is going to rule... The religious nationalism we are seeing now, and if you don't fit there vision.... I think we already are starting to see what happens
Go get 'em world!
So europeans can soon get GPUs for a more reasonable price?
I am confused by the article's insistence that the Euro is not a viable alternative because it's "one currency, 20 countries". If anything, the sheer number of countries make sure that a single election is not going to affect financial and economic policies all that much - which is the main reason for the USD's fall from grace right now.
As a European, the Euro can't replace the dollar. It's not about how stable it is, it's about how many Euros there are. Whichever country will be the world reserve currency will have to produce so much currency to be used all around the world that their non digital exports will never be competitive. The Euro just isn't produced in large enough quantities to be used as a world reserve currency, its production and distribution is tightly controlled for use in European and European partner markets. At least not right now. A long time ago some OPEC countries wanted to try out the idea of using Euros, but just couldn't get enough liquidity to trade all the oil in Euros.
Donald Trump wants the US to both be a goods exporting powerhouse and the world reserve currency. He thinks it's possible, that these diametrically opposed goals have a middle sweetspot where one can be just enough of a world reserve currency not to worry about debt anymore, but also a country that others depend on for manufacturing. That's what all the tariff dancing is all about. I think he's nuts, but hey, every economic theory needs to be tested. Just wish we were testing more sophisticated economic theories.
Anyway, as of this moment Europe is not geared for it. Not industrially, not financially and to be honest, i don't think Europe is even into it. But it's not impossible. It would just require a lot of changes.
I fully agree with you on the current liquidity issues, and certainly on the loss of manufacturing competitiveness that comes with having reserve currency status.
My main economic concern with Trump's policies is simply that "advanced" economies will never really be able to compete in the manufacturing field again. Trump should know - he is surrounded by the richest men in the world, and the only one that does any manufacturing at all, and only as a side gig is Musk. All the other ones only do digital and finance/investment.
I agree that Europe probably doesn't want to get into that space at the moment. I am afraid Europe is pushed into doing a lot of things right now it didn't and doesn't want to do. The decision point would probably come if Trump's tariffs are really just paused and start being enacted. Then Europe will have to massively increase its trade with other nations, which will also have to do the same thing, and then using USD becomes incredibly impractical, especially with the wild swings it is going to have if tariffs are re-enacted.
And, again, totally agreed. This will require a lot of changes, and they will be painful. It just feels like there aren't a whole lot of alternatives.
Imma stop you right there
Right, seems like a positive point not a negative one?
I don't understand why the euro isn't considered the best potential replacement for the dollar