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Unless there is a run on a bank that no other bank is willing to support, then I see no reason for a bank to fold. Banks are profitable businesses regardless of liabilities.
I wonder if the guy who wrote this has a tin foil hat. :dunno:
How on earth did he get a job at a major newspaper?
UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ts-new-global-currency-to-replace-dollar.html
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor
Published: 6:45PM BST 07 Sep 2009
The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world's monetary system since the Second World War.
In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises.
It added that the present system, under which the dollar acts as the world's reserve currency , should be subject to a wholesale reconsideration.
I wonder if the guy who wrote this has a tin foil hat. :dunno:
China has 7% of World GDP and Euro/US has 70%!
Collapse? NO
Faith in currency? MAYBE
Unless there is a run on a bank that no other bank is willing to support, then I see no reason for a bank to fold. Banks are profitable businesses regardless of liabilities.
It seems that banks failures related to subprime mortgages are cooling down and banks are failing for the age-old reason in the banking industry … loans that go bad, especially construction loans.
How then do you explain the 104 US banks that have failed in the last 12 months?
Bank Failures 0f 2009
http://wallstnation.com/banks-bankrupt-sept-09072009
Bank Failures in Brief
http://www.fdic.gov/BANK/HISTORICAL/BANK/index.html
The word was "unless".
Unless the bank that folds is a 'ponzi' scheme that the other 'ponzi' schemers dont want to support.
'Ponzi' schemes are also very profitable businesses regardless of liabilities (until they are exposed).
That has basically been my view... economic hegemony handed to China on a silver platter.
There are a few dynamics at play in the US however that make a collapse *possible* (though I still think... hope, improbable).
I'm always one to account for possibilities... prepare for the worst but hope for the best. But don't ever underestimate the Yanks - If they face reality (and I believe they will sometime soon), they will pull a rabbit out of a hat.
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