Update: The Demise of the Dollar

The following is by Jim Rickards, an international economist, attorney, consultant to gov'ts, NYT Best-Selling author, and expert on the gold market.  It's not the whole piece, and it didn't copy onto this venue properly, but it's readable.  The print size is tiny because that's the only way I could get it onto this page.  [I'm a No-Tech person.]  This is the portion that I felt was most important.
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September 9, 2016

Jim Rickards

Dear Reader,

I’ve been writing about the rise of world money, called the “special drawing 

right”(SDR), for years. 

I’ve especially been giving it a lot of attention recently because of the recent 

G-20 summit that took place in Hangzhou, China, earlier this week. And the IMF 

officially accepts the Chinese yuan into its basket of currencies making up its 

SDR later this month on Sept. 30.

The SDR is part of the global elite plan to displace the dollar as the global 

reserve currency and replace it with a new form of fiat money. This new form of 

money is controlled by the IMF and unaccountable to any elected democratic agency. 

The purpose of SDRs is to create global inflation after years of failure by 

central banks to do the same. 

It’s one thing to warn about a development. It’s another thing to see it unfold 

before your eyes…

In my 2011 book, Currency Wars, on Page 232, I wrote the following: “The IMF 

presented a blueprint for the creation of a liquid SDR bond market, the antecedent 

to replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency with SDRs. 

“The IMF’s paper identifies both potential issuers of SDR bonds, including the 

World Bank and regional development banks, and potential buyers…” (emphasis added). 

That was almost five years ago. 

The SDR market I predicted five years ago is taking shape before our eyes. 

The rise of SDRs is no longer a theoretical experiment; it’s happening in real-

time. 

The rise of SDRs is no longer a theoretical experiment; it’s happening in real-

time.

On July 15, 2016, the IMF issued a playbook calling for more “M-SDRs” (the “M” 

stands for “market” and is a reference to privately issued SDR instruments, 

as opposed to official SDRs, or “O-SDRs,” issued by the IMF itself). 

On Aug. 31, 2016, just six weeks after the IMF greenlight, its sister institution, 

the World Bank, issued SDR500 million (equal to $700 million) of bonds in the new 

world currency. Importantly, the new SDR bonds were issued in China (the lead 

underwriters were four Chinese banks), which has a keen interest in the success of 

the SDR market to undermine the dollar.

Why is the World Bank issuing SDR bonds? It’s not because they have trouble 

borrowing. The World Bank is one of the best credits in the world. They can 

borrow whatever they want, whenever they want, in any currency they want. 

The reason is so that China can invest in SDR assets. How can China buy SDR bonds 

if no one issues them? The World Bank is just accommodating Chinese demand. And 

the Chinese want to invest in SDRs so they can stop investing in dollars. 

There will be many more bond issues like this in the near future. Think of each 

SDR bond issue as another shovelful of dirt on the dollar’s grave.

How much longer will investors sit in dollars waiting for the wipeout to come? 

It’s important to diversify into 10% physical gold to preserve your wealth before 

it’s too late.

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The movement away from the Dollar by various major countries has been 

proceeding slowly for a few years now.  Based on this info from Rickards, 

it seems very likely that movement will accelerate this year.  The world 

appears to be tiring of our Fed Gov't and its promulgation/promotion of 

USA Hegemony.  The propagandists here call it "leading the world", but 

anyone with any common sense at all knows better.

Once the Dollar no longer is the world's reserve currency, we are in for 

some very bad (possibly horrendous) economic times.  Be prepared.

Not only my opinion.  Be Well  

The International Financial Coterie is Destroying Us

Below the dotted line is a recent email I sent to my son, other family, and a few friends.  It has to do with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Financial Coterie (IFC), the latter not being an "official" designation (it was coined by the late Professor Carroll Quigley).
First a brief Preface---
If not the most powerful, then the IMF certainly is one of the very powerful financial institutions on the planet.  Most of us have heard of it; but most of us have no clue as to exactly what it does.  I suspect that even fewer of us know much about the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).  My son had sent me a piece from the IMF official website, a piece with a brief discussion of SDRs.  The SDR system basically is a "basket" of currencies that acts as an additional reserve to participating world central banks.  SDRs can be exchanged by participating members for freely usable currencies.  On October 1, 2016, China will join the elite SDR members.
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Interesting.

The IMF & SDRs = another Oligarchical racket.  The People never voted on this stuff.  The reason the SDR kinda faded away "a few yrs after" it was formed (in 1969) is because of the "Nixon Shock" (fiat $$$ in 1971).  Now it's just another way to manipulate fiat bucks among the International Financial Coterie (IFC).  [Google "coterie"; I had to.  Had only a vague idea of what it is.  Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown U. & a well-respected macro-historian, wrote in 1966 that the IFC (his phrase) ran the world.  He was right, but very few paid attention.]  

The whole mess of politics is a fraud.  Repubs, Dems, Right, Left, etc. ALL (at the highest levels) are puppets of the IFC...sometimes called the "Shadow Gov't", which is recognized by many respected analysts such as Bill Moyers, David Stockman, Michael Hudson, William K. Black, & others.  Even FDR & JFK believed it (one has to dig a bit to find that info).  So do others on the "Right" besides Stockman.  Someday most Americans will wake up to this sad fact.  [The funny thing is, it's not any kind of "grand conspiracy"; it's just kinda an "organic" thing.  The IFC (I suspect) think of it merely as "good business practice".]

Thanks for the piece...revealing history, & straight from the horse's mouth (the IMF).

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I strongly recommend that everyone do a bit of research on Carroll Quigley.  He was a brilliant historian, and specialized in the influence of banking and money on the evolution of civilizations.  His book, Tragedy and Hope, is an in-depth examination of how the Powers-That-Be rule the world...regardless of politics, elections, and any well-meaning institutions.  For the most part, he liked what they did; he considered himself a member of the Elite Class.  That's why he was given access to their private papers while writing the book.  Far from being any kind of "conspiracy theory" nutcake, Quigley was a top-notch researcher who dealt in facts and empirical analysis.

Until we understand the Shadow Government---again, a concept well-accepted by reputable analysts such as Bill Moyers--we will never be able to properly oppose it and have a free and democratic society.  The Elites practice the "Golden Rule":  whoever has the gold, rules.  Currently, it makes almost no difference who is in political office in the so-called "free" countries.  They all kow-tow to the International Financial Coterie...regarding politics, finance, economics, social matters, and war.  [None of it is a "conspiracy".  It's merely some people with common interests, and who think they're above the rest of us, working at times together---but mostly independently or in very small groups---to attain their mutual objectives.  It has nothing at all to do with bizarre rituals, esoteric symbols, and all the other nonsense promoted by some "researchers".  Those people may be well-meaning, but all they're doing is helping the Powers-That-Be by turning off the rest of us to the concept of the Shadow Gov't.]

Not only my opinion.  Be Well