Instability creates dollar demand, and keeps the value high, in the wake of increase in the dollar supply.
The U.S financial interest lies in creating demand for new dollars, so they can keep producing them to pay their debts. During currency collapses: Serbia in 1992 and Argentina in 2001 for example, citizens of those countries turn to paying in dollars instead of their own currency, because it is widely available and more stable. In times of crisis, most black market trades are done in dollars. Anyone who has travelled overseas to a 2nd or 3rd world country knows the dollar is preferred for trade and savings by street hawkers. The same goes for a collapsing developed economy like Argentina, Ukraine, or Serbia. Taken together, dozens of unstable 1st 2nd and 3rd world economies have a massive demand for dollars and dollar trade which may equal the demand for USD by economic activity within our borders. When wars and country bankruptcies happen, not only does the dollar gain new users, then US COMPANIES come in WITH dollars in hand, and as the dust settles, BUY UP ALL THE PRODUCTIVE ASSETS IN THOSE COUNTRIES: factories, farmland, heavy equipment, WITH DOLLARS. Thereby robbing the people of their capacity to restore their own capitalist economy.
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