The world is looking for a replacement for the outdated US dollar global reserve currency arrangement.
The reasons for this are fairly obvious. How can the Fed independently conduct monetary policy to support domestic US needs for a global currency?
The Anglo-American banking cartel will fight this development at every turn, because control of the currency is power.
I trust that a basket of currencies anchored with gold and silver will be on the table. The discussion of such an arrangement was circumvented by the US and UK.
The BRICs are not happy with the status quo. As you may recall, they have recently discussed forming their own version of the World Bank.
Currencies have a life cycle, and often a regional life and custom. No money in the world has lasted for more than ten generation and achieved almost universal acceptance other than gold and silver. It seems to be in their very nature, and in the nature of money.
About Bitcoin
As an aside, people ask me now and then to comment on Bitcoin. I did look into it quite intensively over the Christmas holiday and was aware of it before then.
The good news for Bitcoin is that is does have 'a flywheel' in the fairly transparent algorithm that expands the money supply in a reasonable predictive manner. And from a technology standpoint it does have a coolness factor.
The Achilles heel is its inherent instability because of the manner in which it is sustained and exchanged. The exchanges are a serious weakness because they are unregulated, opaque, and privately owned. They rely heavily on the efficient markets hypothesis and on a few other articles of faith.
Liquidity and stability is the name of the game for money: use and store of value.
It is almost predictable that the Bitcoin currency will have speculative booms and busts, because it has the nature of a Ponzi scheme with the greatest gains going to early adopters and promoters.
It does have its good points, but I am afraid I would defer on it unless a number of sovereigns were to adopt it and guarantee liquidity and exchangeability. Starting a new currency is not easily done. It must be based on something widely accepted and easily exchanged for a broad range of goods and services with a easily recognized unit of value.
But for now the early adopters and adherents do not wish to hear this, very much in the manner of an early stage Ponzi scheme. You'll miss out, better get aboard, you're losing money!
Money is a funny thing. So few people understand it. It often takes on the nature of a belief system, a religion. I recall the very heated and passionate inflation/deflation debates of not so long ago.
Welcome to the fog of currency war.
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