"US Economy in "Relentless" Decline; Analysts say dollar will continue to slide no matter what" by Steve Watson Infowars.net Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007
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.
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.
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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