Keynesian Debt vs Chinese Mercantilism

Great post on Naked Capitalism this morning. The potential for a trade war with China is rising. The more our USD drops, the more jobs that will go to China because of their cost advantages. When the USD declines, China's exports rise because of their peg to the dollar. They only care about employing their masses. They are build...

Sent to me and reposted; I am opening a new category called "other voices" for articles such as this, and will use it from time to time. Anything in here is, obviously, from people other than myself :) China Defaults, Currency Basket Threatens Dollar TSF – October 6, 2009 By Janet Tavakoli Robert Fisk exposed revived...

A new and significant economic move against the dollar by China is happening now.(click the link) The Chinese are actively promoting and encouraging their populace to buy gold and silver with their savings. And this campaign by the Chinese government, by all accounts, appears to be working. Advertisements to purchase silver and gold...

"The Chinese have made no secret of their disdain for current American economic policy and what they see as the inevitable destruction of the dollar. That they would be moving to diversify out of the greenback shocks precisely no one, and gold is one logical landing place for all those bucks. We suspect that’s exactly wha...

Well, anyway, what's so important about gold? If you are clever and lucky enough to be able to control and manipulate the gold price, then you control a massive amount of power. You will be able to manipulate the commodities market so that your own fiat currency is always King. From what is being inferred from the article below rega...

Well, so it continues, more and more bad news for the US dollar. On September 28, 2009, China started issuing its very own Yuan Bonds from Hong Kong -- their very own Treasury Bonds that will vie and directly compete with US Treasuries in the future. So, if you were an Alien from another planet who has just landed on Earth and wante...