Russia is proposing the inclusion of the ruble, yuan and gold as a part of a revised basket of currencies to form the valuation of the IMF’s special drawing rights seen as the coming new alternative global reserve currency, reported AP.
At a summit meeting yesterday, Russia and China challenged the reserve currency status of the dollar with two initiatives, while at the same time professing their support for the greenback in which both countries have huge bond holdings.
Gold for SDRsChina is to extend a $10 billion loan to a regional group that comprises Russia and four central Asian states, presumably money that would previously have bought US bonds. And Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called for the strengthening of the international monetary system ‘not only by making the dollar strong, but also by creating other reserve currencies’.
Senior Kremlin officials told a briefing that Russia may invest in bonds issued by Brazil, China and Russia, and that they want the ruble, yuan and gold to be part of a revised basket of currencies to form the valuation of the IMF’s SDRs.
Officials said that this process ‘can’t happen fast’ and that currency shocks were ‘not wanted now’ and that ‘no one wants to bring the dollar down’.
However, it is of course the imminence of the soaring US budget deficit that will likely boost inflation that has heightened worries among US bond holders about the value of the greenback, and stimulated the search for an alternative.
Gold price lowThat gold should be included in SDRs is a new proposal, and likely to be seen among Arabs and investors around the world as a further reason to buy gold at present prices.
All the studies into the monetization of gold have concluded that the value of the precious metal would soar under such a scenario because of its relatively tight supply. It would therefore seem logical for anybody planning to buy a few ounces or 100 tons of the precious metal to buy before prices start to really escalate.
For gold it would seem the only way for prices is up as it becomes part of the world’s fight back against inflation and devaluation of the US dollar.
Tying currency to a basket of ‘goods’ makes some sense in that you can just print money since it has to be backed by REAL items..like say oil and gold and such that require real work to acquire (compared to just printing paper money and devaluing the currency which is just a tax on the people that hold that currency)
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does anyone know about north korea having gold mines ????. supposedly north korea was a serious gold producer until 1956….. why 1956 ?? don’t know, just that my info gave that date as the cessation of gold production for north korea… 1956… lot of stuff went on in 1956.. my dad bought a lot of international harvestor farm equipment in 1956…… i do mean, a lot of farm equipment…… look around america in 1956 a lot of farmers were buying a lot of farming and industrial equipment……. the korean war was over. so wern’t we in reccession in 1956. the ‘ foundation for cycles project; initiated and funded by f.d.r is now housed in princeton university, new jersey. supposedly the cycles study phenomena project has been shelved, with no more reporting to the public. perhaps it is still operative at our expense, only the data is now propriatery ???.. 1956,,,,,, gold,,,,,,,,north korea,,,, a future storehouse of minerals someone wants, in exchange for american mens blood..??????
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