{"id":13986,"date":"2014-05-29T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T08:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2014-05-29T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T08:15:23","slug":"the-death-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13986","title":{"rendered":"The death of money"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Rickards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The collapse of the monetary system awaits the world in the near future, says financial expert James Rickards. Russia and China’s desire to rid the US dollar of its global reserve currency status is an early sign of the \u201cincreasingly inevitable\u201d crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina has three trillion dollars, but they are buying gold as fast as they can. China worries that the US is going to devalue the dollar through inflation so they want to have a hedge if the dollar goes down, so the gold will go up,\u201d Rickards told RT.<\/p>\n

As one of the key events in support of his forecast, Rickards points to the words uttered by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 18th International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg that took place earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin said he envisions a Eurasian economic zone involving Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Russia. The Russian ruble is nowhere near ready to be a global reserve currency, but it could be a regional reserve currency,\u201d he said, as quoted by ETF Daily News.<\/p>\n

Rickards\u2019 book about the demise of the dollar was released in April under quite an apocalyptic name \u2013 ‘The Death of Money.’ However, the author is surprised that the events are unfolding much faster than he predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anything, the tempo of events is faster than expected. Therefore, some of these catastrophic outcomes may come sooner than I wrote about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, China and Russia signed a historic US$400 billion gas deal which will provide the world’s fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years. Experts say this could be the catalyst that dethrones the greenback as the world’s reserve currency.<\/p>\n

The best-selling author writes that the \u201clinchpin\u201d of the collapse is the approaching failure of the dollar since it is at the foundation of the system. Powerful countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and India do not rely on the US in their national security and would benefit from the US economy being weaker, thus desiring to break free from the dollar standard.<\/p>\n

He elaborates that the dual collapse \u201clooks increasingly inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mistakes have already been made. The instability is already in the system. We\u2019re just waiting for that catalyst that I call the snowflake that starts the avalanche,\u201d he said, as quoted by ETF.<\/p>\n

There are three big international factors that are pressuring the dollar right now \u2013 Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the 1970s, Saudi Arabia [has been] the leader in what\u2019s called the petrodollar. It basically means that Saudi Arabia and, by extension, OPEC, price oil in dollars, so the world market is in dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is a major natural resource exporter; they price their exports in dollars as well. But Russia now is engaged in a financial war with the US around the issues in Crimea and Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The threats to the dollar are \u201cubiquitous,\u201d the author states in his book. The only way the US can pay off its $17 trillion debt is with inflation, which would drive other countries away from the dollar while the accumulation of gold by Russia and China presages the shift to a new reserve asset.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next time we will have a liquidity crisis in the world it\u2019s going to be bigger than the ability of central banks to deal with it. The IMF will basically have to bail out the world by printing the SDRs (an international reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves). By that time, you will see the SDR emerge as the new global world currency,\u201d Rickards told RT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The collapse of the monetary system awaits the world in the near future, says financial expert James Rickards. Russia and China’s desire to rid the US dollar of its global reserve currency status is an early sign of the \u201cincreasingly inevitable\u201d crisis. \u201cChina has three trillion dollars, but they are buying gold as fast as … Continue reading “The death of money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[144,8980,1440,8981,8939,66,7484],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-finance","category-news","tag-china","tag-death-of-money","tag-dollar","tag-james-rickrads","tag-reserve-currency","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rickards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13988,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions\/13988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}