Dober komentar Wolfganga Munchaua o smešnosti argumentov ameriških ekonomistov, da vloga dolarja v nastajajočem multipolarnem svetu ni ogrožena, ker ima Kitajska presežek z trgovinski bilanci. Vendar: bolj kot ZDA uporablja svojo valuto kot orožje v obliki finančnih sankcij, večja je verjetnost, da bo izgubila status svetovne valute. Kateri tuji (nacionalni) premoženjski sklad, zunaj držav Nata, bi še vedno želel imeti velik delež premoženja shranjen v ameriških obvweznicah, če pa je potencialna razlastitev le še ene ameriške volitve proč? ZDA s svojo agresivnostjo pospešeno izpodkopavajo položaj dolarja.
We note a lot of gloating from some US academics, who are telling us that, no, the global role of the dollar is not falling. And, no, there is no de-globalisation. The gloat is about comments from the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who said
“Why should every country have to be tied to the dollar for trade?… Who decided the dollar would be the (world’s) currency?”
Most of this gloating comes in the form of the straw man variety of arguments: China is running massive current account surpluses, which force them to invest their surplus in a foreign currency. Our all-time favourite is the assertion that there is no evidence of de-globalisation in the trade data. This falls into the category of Berlusconi economics. There can be no recession because the restaurants are full.
We understand the reasons why the dollar has emerged as the world’s largest currency. We also understand that this has nothing to do with the denomination of prices. Even if the oil industry were to start using the euro as the denominator, it would not make a difference. Lula has got that part wrong. But he still has a point.

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