It made up almost 6% of official foreign exchange reserves last year. PROS: The yen has ranked among the world’s top reserve currencies for decades. In the modern world, where money moves at the speed of light, sending shipments of gold to settle sovereign debt has become impractical. Most of the world’s governments abandoned gold-based money systems over the past century to gain flexibility in managing economic difficulties. Adherence to the gold standard has been blamed for exacerbating deflation and causing the Great Depression. If central banks can’t control the money supply, they can’t respond to changes in aggregate demand. These attributes prevent its value from falling to zero.ĬONS: Gold’s scarcity removes a key central bank policy tool. Not only is it a sought-after ornament, but it’s also useful as an inert, pliable electric conductor. Gold, by contrast, has an intrinsic value. That means their value can be eroded by economic or political policies pursued by the country or group of countries that backs the currency. Fiat currencies derive their value from the creditworthiness of the issuer. as it did in 1998, when economist Stephen Harmston took a look into the metal’s properties as an inflation hedge.

A favored anecdote is that an ounce of gold bought the same amount of bread (350 loaves) in the Babylon of 562 B.C. That’s difficult and expensive, leading to remarkably stable long-term inflation rates. The only way to increase the global supply of gold is to dig up more. That removes the risk that the government rolls its printing presses to fund spending, a practice that’s brought on hyperinflation and destroyed currencies throughout history. PROS: Gold’s allure as a global reserve currency is that it can’t be written into existence. House of Representatives’ Bank and Currency Committee in 1912. “Money is gold, and nothing else,' John Pierpont Morgan testified to the U.S.

So it seems like a good time to review the leading alternatives to the dollar, even if none appears ready to knock it off its perch just yet. lags behind the euro zone and China in overall volume of exports and imports, IMF data show. The dollar still dominates currency reserves and transactions, but its power is weakening. In each case, the nation’s domination of global trade and finance was key to the currency’s status, though central banks and regulatory maneuvers played a role. The Dutch guilder filled the role in the 17th and 18th centuries, before the Spanish dollar took over, followed by the pound sterling from 1860 until at least 1914. While it seems hard to imagine the dollar losing its place as the world’s reserve currency, a glance at history tells us it’s far from impossible. “At the same time, I think what the crisis and those dollar-related facts have raised are renewed concerns about the mismatch between the dollar-centric international financial system on the one hand and a multipolar world on the other. Should this action be implemented come January 2023 as reported, Nigerian corrupt politicians will be worse hit.“The fact that the global financial system runs on dollars and that the Fed is central to its operation-those things haven’t changed, and those facts have been underscored and reinforced in the early stages of the crisis,' says Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California at Berkeley. The report also has it that US president has also written to British Government and European Union to tow same line and redesign their currencies accordingly to frustrate those with ill-gotten money in US dollar, British Pound Sterling and Euros. The restriction implies that any US Dollar note below 2021 printed date will no longer be accepted or be a legal tender anywhere in the world… This effort is to curb billions of illegal monies in dollar bills warehoused around African continent emanating from drug related, terrorism, kidnapping and money from corrupt politicians.Īs part of the enforcement of the strict action plan, African central banks will be assigned with a special agent from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Administrator of National bank United States of America to checkmate all inflows and outflows of dollar transactions. 2nd 2022 between the United States Federal Reserve Bank, Office of the Comptroller of Currency, IMF, World-Bank and Governors of Africa’s Central Banks, the United States Govt has set date for restriction on acceptable legal tender note of US Dollar which will commence on Jan. Sequel to the just concluded extraordinary meeting held in Washington DC on Nov.

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