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Last edited by Monseratto; June 10th, 2018 at 11:16 AM.
Trump can stonewall any unfavorable ruling that he wants, in other words he can bully the WTO, the US has the means to do so
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American exceptionalism
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China knows who is the much bigger BULLY
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let's see how Trump deals with pushback from Republicans
retaliatory tariffs by trade partners are specifically made to hurt the Republican base
Trump's zero-sum world view
US trade deficit = making other countries rich
unfair!
haha
something Trump doesn't realize is the US needs to run a trade deficit with the rest of the world coz the US is the reserve currency issuer
other countries need dollar savings (dollar reserves) so they can pay for imports and USD-denominated debt
those dollar savings are invested in US govt bonds
the large trade deficit allows the US govt borrow money from the rest of the world
so the US can keep its carrier battle groups running among other things
so Trump wants to wipe out the trade deficit?
that's great
other countries will have less dollars to invest in US govt bonds
the US govt will have less money to borrow
less money to pay for its superior military
Trump doesn't realize he's accelarating the need to replace the dollar as reserve currency
if the US steps back from being the reserve currency issuer, the world will decide to use some other currency
baka sabihin maka-China ako
it may not be the RMB
it may be the Euro
it make be a cryptocurrency
i don't care about American exceptionalism
US number 1 status in the world rests on the dollar and the dollar's #1 status is not permanent
they have the strongest military coz they can outspend any country in the world on defense coz they can borrow unlimited amount of USD
that's the privilege of a reserve currency issuer
the British pound was the reserve currency before it got replaced by the dollar
so Trump's mission to wipe out the US trade deficit will cause dollar shortage
the rest of the world will have no choice but to find some other currency to trade with
Last edited by uls; June 10th, 2018 at 03:04 PM.
the US may be the most powerful country in the world right now
but the US cannot beat math
if there are fewer overseas dollars available to invest in US govt bonds, their interest rates will go up
too much supply of bonds, too few buyers
and when the world loses faith in the dollar
the Amercian military-industrial complex loses its unlimited funding
and so fades the American empire
^Which currency do you think will replace the $ as the next dominant trading currency?
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China and US are frienemies..theyll contend domination but will continually be trading with each other. The truth of the matter is they cant live without each other
The US needs chinas cheap labor for profitability, and china needs US consumerism to have money to lend the US. That is why the US take russia more seriously than china
You are correct its the math of overcoming US GDP with chinas billion population, the chinese isnt going to be dominating anytime soon
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Last edited by kisshmet; June 10th, 2018 at 07:28 PM.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...azard-ceo-says
U.S. isolationism could undermine the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, Lazard Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Ken Jacobs said.
“To the extent that we have unilateral foreign policy and unilateral trade policy, we’re sort of tempting the world to find an alternative,” Jacobs said in a Bloomberg Television interview aired Thursday. “Probably the greatest demonstration of soft power is the fact that the U.S. has the reserve currency of the world.”
The U.S. dollar has been the international currency of choice for more than half a century because of its stability in global markets. That keeps a lid on borrowing costs in America and helps fund the U.S. budget deficit as trading partners place their dollars in Treasuries. Threats to that status are still far off, Jacobs said, because the main currencies in Europe and China are unlikely replacements.
Still, “there’s enough technology out in the world today with cryptocurrency and changes going on that you can imagine, if you let your mind wander a little bit, that something becomes an alternative in the future,” he said.
below is my whole post
i was making a point that Trump is accelerating the need for the world to find another currency to replace the dollar
and honestly don't know what currency that will be
i would have insisted on the RMB but i didn't coz i see the RMB's present limitations
but of course, being one of my haters, you ignored my whole post and focused on that little thing i said "baka sabihin maka-China ako"
Trump doesn't realize he's accelarating the need to replace the dollar as reserve currency
if the US steps back from being the reserve currency issuer, the world will decide to use some other currency
baka sabihin maka-China ako
it may not be the RMB
it may be the Euro
it make be a cryptocurrency
i don't care about American exceptionalism
US number 1 status in the world rests on the dollar and the dollar's #1 status is not permanent
they have the strongest military coz they can outspend any country in the world on defense coz they can borrow unlimited amount of USD
that's the privilege of a reserve currency issuer
the British pound was the reserve currency before it got replaced by the dollar
so Trump's mission to wipe out the US trade deficit will cause dollar shortage
the rest of the world will have no choice but to find some other currency to trade with