China Central Bank Outlines Plan to Dump Dollar
Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor at the Chinese central bank, has released a paper which suggests it’s soon time for China to peg the yuan to a basket of foreign currencies, rather than the U.S. dollar alone.
This especially makes sense for China given that, going forward, the U.S. might not the voracious consumer it once was. Thus tying itself at the hip to the dollar might not be as useful as it was before.
Via Business Insider here’s the Scribd version of the complete report. Read it and weep.
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on July 27th, 2010 at 2:31 am
[...] We’re probably closer to 15% unemployment and 25-30% underemployment. The commercial real estate market collapse is a nightmare that is literally just around the corner and China, our main foreign creditor, just outlined their plan to depeg the Yuan from the dollar. [...]