China announced today that they will no longer use the US dollar as their reserve currency and will instead use the Euro.
Most of the news outlets seem to have buried this...
On fox business, Neil Cavuto had this to say...
Basically China it seems made the decision more than a year ago to divest away from the dollar.
At the time, they held almost 950 Billion dollars worth of US treasuries. Since June 2009, the total value of US treasuries held by the Chinese has dropped 11% and in the past 2 months alone it has fallen 6%.
So to sum it up. China began divesting it US treasuries holdings in June 2009, and basically fired a shot across the bow on August 16th, with the announcement that they were going to the Euro and actively divesting their American holdings.
The spin doctors are hard at work right now figuring out how to call this a non event but this is really a death knell for the US.
Think about it. The Chinese, on the same day they become the 2nd largest economy on the planet, announce they have lost faith in the US and are going to be divesting their US treasury holdings
Most of the news outlets seem to have buried this...
On fox business, Neil Cavuto had this to say...
Basically China it seems made the decision more than a year ago to divest away from the dollar.
At the time, they held almost 950 Billion dollars worth of US treasuries. Since June 2009, the total value of US treasuries held by the Chinese has dropped 11% and in the past 2 months alone it has fallen 6%.
So to sum it up. China began divesting it US treasuries holdings in June 2009, and basically fired a shot across the bow on August 16th, with the announcement that they were going to the Euro and actively divesting their American holdings.
The spin doctors are hard at work right now figuring out how to call this a non event but this is really a death knell for the US.
Think about it. The Chinese, on the same day they become the 2nd largest economy on the planet, announce they have lost faith in the US and are going to be divesting their US treasury holdings
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